Although the Rotary Life-boat Appeal, sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Tamworth and Westminster West, closed on 30th June, contributions may continue. The appeal is to provide a life-boat to be named Rotary Service..
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 150 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 151 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE R.N.L.I. . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 BIRTHDAY HONOURS . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 167 FINANCIAL...
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NORTH SUNDERLAND and HOLY ISLAND.
—On the morning of the 27th January, five fishermen put off in a coble from North Sunderland, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks on the Fame Islands.
Two of the men...
NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 8.33 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported that the naval authorities wanted a life-boat to go out and stand by a vessel high and dry on the Burbo Bank, half a mile...
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.5 on the morning of the 17th of March, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a schooner, which was sheltering in Holyhead harbour, was dragging her anchors and was in danger of going ashore. At...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead needed a doctor twenty miles north of Blaskets, as one of her seamen had been badly...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 10.40 on the morning of the 15th May, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ros Bui of Dublin had broken down three miles north-west of Lemon Rock. At 11.3, when the life-boat...
Ilfracombe, Devon.—Shortly after 3 P.M. on the 18th November, 1938, a southerly wind was rapidly rising to a gale, with a rough sea. Three rowing fishing boats could be seen at sea by the coastguard, and at 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
During a thick fog on the llth September signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Cowbar Steel. One of the cobles put off, but found that it was not pos- sible to approach the vessel which had stranded on the Steel. She returned...
MAN OVERBOARD ~ RED flares reported at 11.37 p.m. on 24th July led to the Moelfre, Anglesey, life-boat Watkin Williams, which is a 42-foot Watson type, going to the aid of the yacht Nisser of Hoylake seven miles east of Moelfre at 12.40 a.m....