DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...
The Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched at 1 A.M. on the 13th April to the assistance of a vessel stranded on Hammond's Knoll. When about three miles out the boat was picked up by a steam-tug, and arrived about 7 A.M. at the...
Following the article 'Waiting for the lifeboat', which appeared in the Autumn 1996 issue of The Lifeboat, Lytham coxswain, Paul Heyes, and station honorary secretary, Frank Kilroy, discuss their individual viewpoints regarding...
Category: Articles
OCTOBER 1 2TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Red rockets had been reported and then a message came that an aeroplane had crashed on the coast, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the aeroplane had crashed on land.- Partly...
Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to be in difficul- ties in Hoy Sound. The honorary secretary, the coxswain and the motor mechanic drove...
THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...
Well dressing is an old custom in Derbyshire and here is a magnificent example of the art, created at Holymoorside last August.
Usually well dressings have a religious theme but last year Chesterfield and District branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the morning of the llth January, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Viper's engine broke down when she was fishing about half a mile west of Ramore Head. She carried a crew of four. Another fishing boat, The...
SIR,—As there have been so many changes of late years in all that is connected with sailors and ships, the loss of life at sea is a subject well worth considering during what may be termed the experimental period. The loss is not so great...
Category: Correspondence