Newhaven, Sussex. — At 7.5 On the evening of the 28th of August, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel, with another in tow, had broken down off Beachy Head lighthouse. Later reports said that the vessels were drifting. At 8.8 the life...
By DON PEDRO DE NOVO Y COLSON, General Secretary of the Sociedad Espanola de Salvamento de Naufragos.
THE Society was founded in December, 1880 (under the patronage of H.M. Queen Dona Maria Cristina, its first protecting...
Category: Articles
Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...
THE DUKE OF MOXTROSE, who had been associated with the Life-boat Service for nearly fifty years and had been Treasurer of the Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, died on the 20th of January, 1954.
He...
Category: Obituaries
THE progress in construction and the results in the past year of the work of the Motor-Boats now on the coast are very satisfactory, and we now give a revised Table of the Motor-Boats with the motors installed in them. A comparison •of this...
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At eight in the morning of 20th October the No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was launched in a moderate, but increasing, N.N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, as the motor fishing coble Brittania, of Flamborough, had not...
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OWING to the great increase during the last few years in the work of organizing the Institution's appeals, it has been decided to divide the Midlands District, which up to the present has included Ireland and Wales. The Midlands...
Category: Committee