On a visit to Hastings earlier this year HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the RNLI for 43 years, stops for a word with Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and members of the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The ship Thomlie- banlc, of Glasgow—a large vessel of nearly 2,000 tons register—whilst bound from Pisagua to Palmouth with a cargo of nitrate, ran on to the Grim Rocks during foggy weather on the 28th November, The vessel commenced to...
AUGUST 1991 Clifton Smith-Cox CBE TD, founder member of Clevedon branch and president from 1974 until his death..
Category: Obituaries
Newhaven, Sussex. At 5.30 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a sailing barge was drifting close inshore in Seaford Bay. The life- boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.37 in a fresh...
AT 10.8 on the night of the 8th of March, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Campbeltown station, Mr. A. P. MacGrory, that the S.S. Gracehill, of Campbeltown, was ashore on Sanda island in thick fog and needed help....
Category: Services
THE Institution has received gifts of biscuits from Messrs. Peek Frean, Huntley & Palmer, McVitie & Price and W. &. R. Jacob, and of chocolate from Messrs. Rowntree, Cadbury and Fry.
These are the emergency...
Category: Donations
IN the early part of March next, it is intended to hold a Public Dinner, in the City, in aid of the funds of the above Institution, and for the purpose of bringing the Society and its objects prominently before the country. His Grace the...
Category: Articles
— 6th August. A steamer and a trawler ran ashore but refloated ! without help. — Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1947, distress signals made by a steam whistle could be heard. In a dense fog the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at...
JANUARY 29TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
The Isle of Man Steam Packet Passenger and Mail Boat, Rushen Castle, with 150 passengers and crew on board, left Liverpool at 10 A.M. on the 27th January, 1940, and arrived in Douglas Bay...