Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 4.15 A.M. on the 16th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head. A light N.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea, and there was a thick fog. The motor...
Recently I came across some old photographs which I am sending to you hoping they will be of interest. In 1937 we were spending a family holiday in St Ives, Cornwall, and one day during our first week we found ourselves, with other holiday... - View image in PDF
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On the 24th January, during a tremendous hurricane from the S., accompanied by thick showers of snow, the schooner Mis- chief, of Caernarvon, struck on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of Holy Island. Signals of...
On the night of the 24th of September, 1958, the Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat took a sick man off the Morecambe Bay lightvessel in very heavy seas. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 131, Coxwain Roland Moore was...
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 6 A.M.
on the 3rd January, 1939, the watchman at the life-boat station reported a steam trawler aground on the Trinity Sands. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. Watch was kept on the...
WE lament to announce the death of the Right Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, P.O., G.C.B., Paymaster-General and Judge Advocate- General in the late Government, and member for Shoreham from 1859 until the late general election. For some years Sir...
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A summer wine and quiche party organised by Northampton ladies' guild and held at Castle Ashby, the home of the Marquess of Northampton, raised £1,133 for Aldeburgh lifeboat appeal. Conducted tours were taken round this delightful... - View image in PDF
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Portaskaig, Islay.—During the morning of the llth March the mail steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow, left Portaskaig for West Loch Tarbert. She had mail and twenty-two persons on board. When she was about eight miles east of Macarthur's Head...
IT is very gratifying to observe that the French Life-boat Society continues steadily to extend its beneficent operations on the broad basis of the system of the English NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the ap- probation of which by our...
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(Note the Trolley, at the Head of die Slipway, by means of which the Boat is run along on Rail; from the Boat-house.). - View image in PDF
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