When the ketch Heather Belle, of Appledore, was coming in over the bar on the 28th December she ran ashore on the Middle Ridge.
Signals of distress were made, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was...
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A signal of distress was seen in Moelfre Bay during a storm from the S., at about 2 P.M. on the 24th January. The Lady Vivian Life- boat put off, and found that the signal was shown by the smack Frens, of Beaumaris, bound...
FOOD TO A STARVING ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. — For nearly three weeks the island of Papa Stour had been cut off from the mainland and the islanders were starving. On January llth, 1947, the food executive officer for Shetland asked for the...
On the 15th December, during a heavy S.S.E. gale, two French vessels, mistaking this harbour for that of Portsmouth, struck on the sands at East [ Looe and West Looe respectively. The ' Manley Wood life-boat was soon launched...
In disclosing that the R.N.L.I.'s temporary secondhand shop in High Street, Margate, had netted £800 in three weeks, Mrs. H. D. Ford, honorary secretary of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild, said : 'We must have over 1...
Category: Donations
On the 2nd August the dandy Fraternite, of Fecamp, whilst beating through the roads, collided with a steamer and was commencing to sink. Her crew took to their boat and were picked up by a shrimping boat and taken to Yarmouth. The Gorleston...
PORT PATRICK.—On the 2nd June, while a moderate wind was blowing from the E.N.E. and a rough sea was running, the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3, was launched at 10.30 A.M., with a view of carrying out the usual quarterly...
About noon on the 23rd February, it was reported that a vessel was on the North Buxey Sand with a signal of distress flying.
The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the...
ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1945, a man was cut off by the tide at Hele Bay, Ilfracombe. A marine told 73-year-old Mr.
C. Galliver, and the two men put out in a rowing boat. A fresh...
Category: Services
MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...