Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.20 in the evening, on the 5th of May, 1950, the Cementation Company said that aboat was in danger of drifting out to sea with a large section of the boom off Shoeburyness. It had three of their men aboard, who...
DINGHY CAPSIZED Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.10 p.m. on 23rd April, 1964, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that a dinghy had capsized off the Quern buoy and was drifting towards the Brake buoy with two people on board. At 7.20 the...
The Institution also announces with deep regret the deaths of the following former coxswains:— COXSWAIN JAMES ROACH, of Plymouth.
COXSWAIN EDDIE MADRON, of Penlee..
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The Institution also announces with deep regret the deaths of the following former coxswains:— COXSWAIN JAMES ROACH, of Plymouth.
COXSWAIN EDDIE MADRON, of Penlee..
Category: Obituaries
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AUG. 1ST. - GALWAY BAY, GALWAY.
At 6 P.M. a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing,...
The same valuable life-boat afterwards went to the assistance of the barque Honfleur, of Sandiford, Norway, which was likewise stranded on the Cross Sand, and succeeded in taking that vessel and her crew of 13 men to a safe anchorage off...
During a strong S.S.E. gale and very heavy sea on the 8th December the watchman observed a vessel burning distress signals off the harbour. Information was con- veyed to the coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Marie Lane and the boat was...
FLEETWOOD MOTOR VESSEL BREAKS DOWN Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.30 a.m.
on Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares were being burnt about half a mile east of Danger Patch...