At 8.15 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 12-foot open boat Karen of Porthallow was overdue. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched at 8.40 in a moderate north north westerly breeze...
Bangor, Co. Down; At 8.51 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Craigavad. At 8.57 the IRB launched in a strong, gusting to gale force...
DECEMBER 19TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the postmaster at Sandness telephoned that a woman was seriously ill on the island of Papa-Stour and that a doctor was urgently needed. A full gale had been blowing...
Knife to see you? •opte in rroubte are usually pleased to see a lifeboat, but not so for a man ^B to evade the police in Heme Bay in August. Holding a knife, he cycled, onto the sea and swam out. The man, who was not training for a...
Never off duty The crew of Lytham St Annes were on passage from Ramsey on the Isle of Man on 1 February, collecting the relief Mersey class lifeboat Margaret Jean, when they intercepted a telephone conversation between the Coastguard and a...
16 February: Somerset As the storms continued in to February, floods caused many to be either trapped inside or to evacuate their homes, as well as suffer a loss of livelihood. In a departure from their usual...
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Captain John Williams, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., who died on 6th December, 1937, at the age of seventy-two, had been the Institution's honorary sec- retary and treasurer at Aberdovey since 1925, first of the station, and, when it was closed in...
Category: Obituaries
OCTOBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.25 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a red flare near Scotstoun Head had been reported from Rattray. Half an hour later it was reported that six red flares...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 7.33 on the evening of the 15th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported a fishing boat burning flares off Caernarvon Bar.
At 8.0 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched. There was...
EXHAUSTED BY ROWING Whitehills, Banffshire. At 1.55 a.m.
on 3rd August, 1965, the police reported that a flare had been seen off Banff. The life-boat Helen Wycherley launched at 2.15 in a moderate north-easterly breeze and...