(Below) Second Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer with the Trent class Frederick Storey Cockburn.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Burnham-on-Sea’s lifeboats were returning from their regular Wednesday night training session on 18 June when the Coastguard asked their crews to investigate a sailor who looked to be in trouble. The man was having difficulty recovering his...
Category: Articles
Eight hundred branches held flag days in 1941, and 508 of thsse days collected more than ever before. 9,288,000 people contributed. That is 1,561,000 more than in 1940, and the biggest number who have ever given. The sum raised was...
Category: Articles
The Duncan life-boat at Sheringham saved 3 persons from the schooner Hero, of Maldon, which had stranded opposite Bee- ston Hills, near Sheringham.
The same life-boat also rescued 6 men from the schooner Bestlett, of Peter- head, which became a total wreck on Has- borough Sands.
GKIMSBY.—A telegram having been received reporting a vessel in distress, the Life-boat Manchester Unity put off at about 9.45 A.M. on the 13th October, during a strong N.W. gale and a heavy sea. She proceeded down the Humber under sail, and...
By the death of Mrs. H. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea, who died on 22nd November, 1929, at the age of 85, the Institution has lost one of its oldest workers. She became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she...
Category: Obituaries
21 st August. A motor boat capsized. Five of the six occupants were rescued by boats from the shore.—Rewards, £6 3s. &d..
REDCAR.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched at 10.15 A.M., on the 14th April, and helped two fishing - boats which had been overtaken by stormy weather and a heavy sea..
Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire. — llth- 12th March. The steam trawler Belgaum, of Reykjavik, wirelessed for a doctor, but in the heavy snow she could not be found.—Rewards, £16 Us. 6d..