JUST after four in the morning of 8th February, 1934, the life-boat station at Runswick, Yorkshire, re- ceived a message from the coastguard that distress signals were being fired five miles N.N.E. of Staithes Nab. A gale was blowing from...
Category: Obituaries
ESCORT FOR FIVE COBLES Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.45 on the morning of the 14th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that five fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather. The life-boat The Isa & Penryn...
NORTH DEAL and RAMSGATE, KENT.
—At 10.15 A.M. on the 29th August a barque was observed from Deal ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was promptly launched and proceeded to her assistance. She proved...
19th April. An aeroplane had dived low and had flown off when the observers were unsighted.
They reported her to have disappeared into the sea.—Rewards, £8..
A dismasted yacht being seen off the North Foreland while a moderate gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 5th June, the Life-boat Frances Forbet Barton was launched at 5 P.M., and on reaching the vessel found she was the yawl...
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 1.25 in the morning of the 22nd of May, 1943, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore at Kettleness. A light northerly wind was blowing, the weather was fine and the sea was smooth....
Category: Services
Barrow, Lancashire - At 5 p.m. on 24th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Falcon appeared to be in difficulty at the south end of Walney.
The IRB was launched to investigate at...
Meeting of Workers from North and Mid-Wales.
A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers from Branches and Ladies' Life-boat Guilds in North and Mid-Wales was held at Llandudno on the 22nd October, 1930. Delegates from ten...
Category: Meetings
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...