Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...
Category: Obituaries
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 7.48 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, a yacht was reported in difficulties about one mile west of Hurst Castle. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at 8.1 in a strong south south easterly breeze...
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings moves on to western Scotland, travelling from Kippford to Barra IslandHaving boldly gone from Berwick, on the north-east corner of England, we now cross the Final Frontier and...
Category: Articles
At 8.15 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 12-foot open boat Karen of Porthallow was overdue. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched at 8.40 in a moderate north north westerly breeze...
JANUARY 17TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At 4.51 in the afternoon information was received that the fishing boat Hazel, of Portrush, had not returned from sea, and the motor life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched at 5.15 to search...
At 11.30 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, the local doctor reported that one of his patients was suffering from a severe hemorrhage which could prove fatal ifthere was any delay in getting her to hospital. The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman...
On the 10th October, the Angela and Hannah life-boat went out, during a fresh breeze from the S.W., and saved a man, who was found on a raft, formed of two ballast boards and a gaff. He had belonged to the smack Rover,' of Annan, which...
Lord Chesham, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, acting on behalf of the Queen, presented the British Empire Medal to Coxswain Sidney Cann, of Appledore, at the Ministry of Transport on yth...
Category: Medals
DUEING 1936 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 45 British vessels.
Three of these services were by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 2 by Holland, 3 by Iceland, 1 by Sweden, and 35 by the United...
Category: Services
Wells, Norfolk.—About 1.30 P.M. on the 8th December, 1937, information was received from a man and from the coastguard that a ship was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 2.50 P.M....