Engine failure A MESSAGE came from Warden Point Coastguard to Sheerness honorary secretary at 0752 on Monday, May 26, to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down near the outfall buoy and groynes half a mile east of Garrison Point. The...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—About four in the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile west of Whitaker Beacon. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched in a strong...
Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.50 in the evening of the 13th of November, 1948, a message was received from Whitehaven that a fishing vessel which had put out from there had not re- turned, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched...
A photograph taken by Mr. L. H. Shelvey, honorary secretary at Walmer, from the life-boat as she was returning from the Goodwin Sands. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Eileen Haw, souvenir secretary of Coventry ladies lifeboat guild from 1984 until 1991. She first joined the guild in 1981 and continued to serve the committee until shortly before her death..
Category: Obituaries
JAN. 9TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
The Seven Stones Light-vessel fired rockets, but it was found that she was signalling for the Trinity House tender.- Rewards, £21 10s..
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. A steamer had been reported in collision with a destroyer, but the help of the life-boat was not needed, and she was recalled by wireless. - Rewards, £11 14s.
At 5 P.M. on the 15th October information was received from the coastguard that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a distress signal. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 5.20 P.M., and found the...
Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life- boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was out on exercise in the afternoon of the 27th of January, 1949, information was received at the station that a man at Baltasound, Unst, had been badly injured, and the...
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 2.45 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1952, the Kirkwall coastguard reported a trawler ashore between Noup Head and Start Point and at 3.38 the life- boat J. J. K. S. W. left her moorings.
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