On the 13th December the smack Countess of Zdsburne, of Aberystwyth, laden with limestone, was observed in a dangerous position on Car- digan Bar, in a heavy ground swell. The life-boat was immediately launched, and, proceeding through the...
On the 26th Jan., when the Norwegian brig Otto, of Moss, was driven ashore at Eastern Green, in. Pen- zance Bay, the Life-boat launched out during a heavy southerly gale oLwind and in a high sea, and succeeded in saving from destruction the...
NEW ROMNEY.—Late in the evening of the 10th April, the Dutch schooner Tobina, of Pekela, from Sunderland, dragged her anchors during a strong gale, and was seen from the shore to strike on the Eoar Bank, heel over, and go down. The crew...
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...
Swanage, Dorset.—At 4.9 on the after- noon of the 16th of June, 1956, thecoastguard telephoned to say that the police had stated that a man had reported seeing a rowing boat with three occupants appear to capsize by the second buoy off...
The crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat, with the vicar of Gorleston, about to embark for the service in memory of those who lost their lives at sea in the great war. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE Institution has received a gift of £43 5s. from the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. It was the result of an auction on board the Warwick Castle of a cigarette-tin engraved by the captain..
Category: Donations
Margate, Kent.—6th September. The engine of a pilot boat had broken down and the boat went ashore, but the engine was re-started and the boat got off unaided. The owners made a donation.—Rewards, £12 8s..
Cromer, Norfolk.—9th October, 1939.
After rescuing the crew of twenty-nine of the Greek steamer Mount Ida, the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey went to the help of a Lowestoft drifter, but found that her crew had been...
A link with the Aldeburgh life-boat disaster of 7th December, 1899, has been broken by the death of Mr. P. H. Thorp. He was the last surviving member of the crew associated with the Aldeburgh life-boat of 1899..
Category: Obituaries