The proprietor of Highfields Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, recently received a substantial contribution in his life-boat collecting-box from a German visitor.
The German explained that he had been a U-boat commander in the last...
Category: Donations
In March the crew of the Salcombe life-boat, The Baltic Exchange, visited London as guests of the Baltic Exchange who presented the boat in 1962.
They were accompanied by their coxswain, Mr. Hubert Distin, and honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ahcrdi'i'n ALBON-I24K: Aug 11. Aug 29 ( m i i f ) . Sep K (twice). Oct 1 and Oct 13 ILBD-536: Aug 9, Aug 11. Aug 29 (twice), Sap 8 (twice), Scp 29 andOct 13 l n n l i n t' 1LBB-7SS: Aug 2, Aug 5.
Aug 14. Aug...
Category: Services
FEBRUARY 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At four in the afternoon the coxswain saw a vessel putting up distress rockets about two miles east-south-east of Peterhead, and at 4.25 the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
On the 30th of December last, at 3-30 p.m., the schooner Agenaria, of Bideford, when running in a crippled state for the harbour of Tenby, during a strong S.E. gale, broached-to, and was driven on shore on the south side of the port. The...
FEBRUARY 3RD. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 2.45 in the morning the coastguard reported vessels in collision three miles east-by-north of Queen’s Pier. The motor life-boat Lady Harrison was launched at 3.40. The south-westerly wind was moderate,...
BY the death of Mr. Robert Legerton on 28th September, at the age of eighty, the Institution has lost one who has been closely associated with its Clacton- on-Sea Station since its establishment fifty-two years ago, and who, as a Coxswain,...
Category: Obituaries
Even more on the Lagos Pilot Boat I have been following the letters on the Lagos pilot boat with interest. This is partly because the Queen was originally propelled by water jets and the photograph with Mr Powell's letter in the Autumn... - View image in PDF
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The life-boat at this place, named the Caroline, was off on the same day to the brig /. C. Howitz, of Rostock, which was overtaken by the gale and driven on the rocks about half a mile from the shore. There was a very heavy sea running at...
LORD GREY PRESENTING THE CERTIFICATE of SERVICE TO JOHN STEPHENSON. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs