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Category: Photographs
AT 5.37 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station, Mr.
D. Thompson, learnt from the Tara coastguard that a Norwegian ship was aground on South Rock and needed help...
Category: Services
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
FEBRUARY 13TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
At 12.29 in the afternoon the coastguard reported smoke at sea and what appeared to be a man in a rubber dinghy. A westerly wind was blowing, with a bad ground swell. The motor life-boat...
During a strong wind from N.W., on the 17th June, the ship Mary Roe, of Quebec, struck on the Cefn Sidan Sands, about seven miles from this place. As soon as in- formation of the disaster was received, the City of Manchester life-boat was...
IN the course of five weeks of the war, from 10th October to 14th November, 1939, the motor life-boat at the Humber was out on service ten times and rescued 102 lives. For three of these services Coxswain Robert Cross was awarded a clasp to...
Category: Services
OCTOBER 14TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Rockets had been reported some miles S.S.E. of Greenore Point, but when it was learned that a convoy had been attacked well over on the Welsh side of St. George’s Channel the life-boat was...
FOUND EMPTY CANOE At 2.4 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a i y-year-old boy was missing in the Firth of Forth, and that he was last seen in his canoe the previous morning.
The...
The following letter has been received from a lady who for over fourteen years has been a collector for one of the Institution's branches:—• "I wish to assure you that all my efforts on behalf of your great caus have been well...
Category: Correspondence
MARCH 1ST. - WALMER, KENT. At 5 P.M. a message was received from Doctor Hall, the port medical officer, that a member of the Norwegian steamer Primo, of Oslo, had fractured his leg. The vessel was about two miles E.S.E. from the life-boat...