SEPTEMBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.18 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the S.S. Freden, of Stockholm, was making for Yarmouth Roads and had asked for a doctor, as the captain was injured. A light...
The Baroness Windsor life-boat at Penarth rescued the crew of 11 men of the brig Marie, of Grieffswald, which had stranded on Ranie Spit.
The life-boat at St. Andrew's, 1S.B., saved the crew of 4 men of the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, which had stranded off the entrance to the harbour.
PLEASURE PARTY RESCUED Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.50 in the even- ing of January 12th, 1947, the pilot house telephoned that a boat to the north of Lady Isle was making flares.
A strong north-easterly breeze was blowing, with a...
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At three in the morning of the 12th of October, 1948, the owner of the fishing smack Albert, of Boston, reported that the smack was to the southward, leaking, and in diffi- culties, and the motor life-boat Anne Allen...
Newhaven and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, fishermen reported to the Newhaven life-boat station that the fishing smack Maggie, of Shoreham, was long overdue. A strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a...
The Weymouth motor life-boat, among other vessels, greeting the King when he arrived at Weymouth on June 20th, 1938, on a visit to the fleet. - View image in PDF
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the launch Scottish Maid with one man on board, appeared to be in difficulties. A later message con- firmed that...
THE next annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution will take place at the Central Hall, West- minster, on Tuesday, 6th March, 1962..
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CABIN CRUISER TOWED TO HARBOUR Troon, Ayrshire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 30th June, 1962, the Ardrossan police passed on to the honorary secretary a report received from the Isle of Man steamer King Orry, when she had arrived at...