WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
Category: Articles
Seven lifeboatmen from Newhaven, Sheerness and Portsmouth, attended the Annual National Service for Seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral on October 17. Coxswain/ Mechanic Leonard Patten of Newhaven lifeboat, was the RNLI colour bearer,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1952, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat reported that the motor pleasure launch Lady Margaret, of Middles- brough, had gone aground on the harbour bar. The tide was too...
'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...
Category: Inaugurations
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...
JULY 18TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.7 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that the Torquay police had received a 999 telephone call which said that a whistle had been heard from a boat apparently in distress half a mile east of Roundham...
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.3 on the night of the 12th of November, 1955, a message was received from the port radar station that a coaster had been sunk in a collision near Formby light-float. Seven minutes later the life-boat Norman B....
SIX FISHING BOATS ESCORTED Arbroath, Angus. On Friday the 30th August, 1963, at 8.45 a.m. the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that five fishing boats had gone to sea early that morning and were now returning to harbour....
NOV. 26TH. - HYTHE, KENT. A steamer and a light-vessel had been in collision, but the life-boat’s services were not needed as a t u g a n d a t r a w l e r w e r e s t a n d i n g b y - Rewards, £36 14s. 6d..