LANDING AN INJURED MAN IN A ROUGH SEA New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board asked for the life-boat to land the mate of the Bar Light-vessel, who had been severely...
SICK MAN LANDED Margate, Kent.—At 8.57 on the night of the 6th of January, 1948, the motor life-boat Lord Southborough—Civil Service No. 1, was launched in a strong south-south-west breeze with a rough sea to search for an aeroplane reported...
Troon, Ayrshire.—At. 11.55 in the morning of the 9th of August, 1949, the coxswain saw the Greenock motor fishing boat Emily, which had a crew of five, showing flares. She was lying broadside on to the sea off Gailes Beach to the...
By the death on 16th January of the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A.,of Cadgwith, Cornwall, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost one of the oldest and most distinguished honorary secre- taries of life-boat stations. When, in 1898, he...
Category: Obituaries
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 17th November, 1937, the Lynn Well Lightship reported, through Cromer and the local coastguard, that a barge seemed to be in distress about four miles away. An easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Ramsgate, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht in tow of the German steamer Helios, which was twenty-four miles east of Ramsgate, needed the help of a life-boat....
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.45 on the morning of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small canoe had capsized off Castle beach and that its two occupants were in the water. The life- boat Crawford and...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 5.28 on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1957, the wife of the Chief Justice of Ireland telephoned the coxswain to say a small motor boat was on fire east of Carnsore Point. At 5.48 the life-boat Douglas...
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 10.45 on th? night of the 21st of September, 1957, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that a small yacht had left Cairnryan that afternoon for Ballantrae but had not arrived, and anxiety was felt for her. The...
Dunmorc East, Co. Waterford. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of April, 1958, the owner of a local hotel told the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen over the cliffs at Portally while shooting seals and was lying...