On the 27th of November, 1954, the Newhaven, Sussex, life-boat was launched in a full gale to go to the help of a Danish auxiliary schooner.
The crew of eight were taken off by breeches buoy and...
The four-masted barque Lisbeth of Hamburg, whilst sailing into the Downs on the 17th January took the ground off Walmer Castle. The Coastguard having warned the Coxswain of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4, the boat was launched and...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 7th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a French fishing vessel appeared to be aground half a mile off Quern Buoy. At 7,15 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings.
Stromness, Orkneys. At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the body of a lighthouse keeper, who had been missing for over a week from Sule-Skerry, had been found south of Dunas...
Walmer, Kent. At 1.55 on the after- noon of the 27th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that residents at Walmer and Kingsdown had seen a number of small fishing boats in difficulties because of a sudden...
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—Signals of distress were shown at 11 A.M. on the 7th December by a yawl which was at anchor in Conway Bay during a whole gale from the W.S.W. The Christopher Brown Life-boat pnt off to her assistance, and brought safely...
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — On the 30th of July, 1949, the life-boat Lloyd's was on passage from Sandbank, Argyllshire, to her station, after survey.
At 1.50 in the afternoon she saw signals of distress about...
CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...
Category: Obituaries
,nd Coxswain William Dop, of Porthdinllaen. Caernarvonshire; Coxswain Edward C. Larbal |gUielier. Jersey; Coxswain Frederick Upton, of Walmer. Kent; C. Percy Cavell. the Motor Mechanic of Walmer, Kent; Coxswain Alfred Johnston, ... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs