SECOND-COXSWAIN JOHN ROBERTS, of Llandulas, who died in May, 1939, at the age of 77, was second-coxswain of the Llandulas life-boat for 27 years, from 1891 to 1918. On his retirement he was awarded a pension by the Insti- tution. His...
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Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 1.10 P.M. on the 21st May, as a telephone message had been received from Withernsea coastguard that the motor boat Withernsea Monster had broken down and was drifting, five miles east...
On the after- noon of the llth January, a doctor asked for the life-boat to go to Caldy Island to fetch to the mainland a girl who had been badly burnt and was in great pain. It would have been dan- gerous to fetch her in an open boat, and...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
—At 12.34 on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1951, the Holyhead coastguard said that a capsized yacht had been sighted about seven miles west-north- west off Porthdinllaen Point. At one...
On the evening of the 3rd September the coastguard at Kilchoman reported that a steamer was in distress half a mile west of Colonsay. A strong west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. The new motor life-boat Charlotte...
Blyth, Northumberland. — At^ 1.48 A.M. on the 22nd December, 1937, the coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 3 was ashore in Blyth Bay, and that a tug had gone out to her. Owing to poor visibility, he could not see where she was. A...
Margate, Kent. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the motor boat New Golden Spray of Margate had developed engine trouble a mile and a half south-east of...
Cromer, Norfolk. Shortly after noon on the 16th of April, 1960, weather conditions began to deteriorate and some anxiety was felt for two Shering- ham crab boats fishing off Cromer.
The Sheringham coxswain made en- quiries...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At two o'clock on the morning of the llth of September, 1960, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Swedish steamer Arnold Bratt, which would make...