D class, Tyne and X boat rescue fallen climber Holyhead's D class inflatable was called out at 1600 on 21 April to a man who had fallen 90ft from a cliff at North Stack.
The D class was taken through rough, surging 6ft...
NOV. 23RD. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. At 12.15 A.M. a message was received from the customs officer that a ship’s boat had reached the Rhunagad Lighthouse with part of the crew of the Fleetwood t r a w l e r S u l b y , sunk by enemy...
JANUARY 8TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 1.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Belgian trawler Monte Carlo, of Ostend, appeared to be too close to Langney Point. There was fog and a north wind was...
JUNE 25TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At twelve noon the coastguard telephoned that an airman was in the sea 500 yards S.E. of Waxham. He was one of the crew of an American Fortress aeroplane. All the crew had baled out but the others had come down...
FOR some years yacht clubs and golf clubs have been holding competitions, for which all the entry money has been donated to the Institution. The prizes for yacht races have been pennants, and for golf competitions spoons. The Institution is...
Category: Donations
Double crossed It is worth remembering that not every plan for raising funds through sponsorship, however well laid, ends in success.
The following is a letter sent to Andrew Young, regional organiser, south west, by two...
Category: Correspondence
WALMER, KENT. On the 18th January, 1939, the motor boat Rose Marie helped the life-boat to save the yacht Leigh Hall. -Rewards, £3 10s., 12s. for fuel used and 12s.
for damage to tow-rope.
(For a...
Category: Services
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY, MAY 17 1976: A YEAR OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ON SEA AND LAND A STANDING OVATION for a gold medallist and his crew at the end of the presentation of no less than 24 medals for gallantry; the report of an increase of...
Category: Meetings
Campbeltown (Argyllshire) ; Troon (Ayrshire).
DURING September tte Inaugural Cere- monies took place of two new Motor Life-boats on tte West Coast of Scot- land, at Campbeltown, Argyllstire, and Troon,...
Category: Inaugurations
A lifetime of lifesaving Joel Grunnill tells the Lifeboat how he overcame ice, injuries and even bullets during his so-far-78 years of volunteering Skegness born and bred, Joel Grunnill was part of the Lincolnshire town’s lifeboat crew for...
Category: Articles