ILFRACOMBE.—On the 2nd April the Life-boat Co-Operator No. 2 was called out in squally weather to the assistance of the barque Aberlemno, of Swansea, coal laden from Barry, which had stranded on a point called Egg Bock, W. of Combmartin, in...
Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...
On the 30th January, 1860, the ship Ann Mitchell ran ashore on the Arklow bank. The Arklow life-boat proceeded to her, and found the Bristol steamer Suly lying near her, but unable to approach sufficiently near to take off her crew, the sea...
ON the night of the 25th of October, 1949, a whole northerly gale was blow- ing at Holyhead with violent squalls at forty and fifty miles an hour. The sea was very rough; the night dark with heavy squalls of rain.
A small...
Category: Services
By the death of Dr. J. Iredale, of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, on 8th Sep- tember last, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. Dr.
Iredale became the Honorary Secretary of the Station at Mablethorpe...
Category: Obituaries
IN April, 1926, the Institution awarded its gold badge, given only for dis- tinguished honorary services, to Miss Hannah Denham. She had then been for many years a bed-ridden cripple in the incurable ward at the Westminster Hospital. She was...
Category: Obituaries
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Cadgwith, Cornwall. — About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary, Mr. J. F. Gibson, saw a sailing dinghy go ashore at Sperric Cove. At 1.30 the life-boat Guide of Dunkirk was launched...
The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.
A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the...
Buckie, and Whitehills, Banffghire, and Fraserburgb, Aberdeenshire. — 9th November. A fishing boat was in distress off Buckie and the motor life- boat was launched. She took the boat in tow but was disabled by the tow-rope fouling her...