On the night of the 18th January the watchman reported flares and rockets in the neighbourhood of the Splough Rock, and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was launched. As usual, Mr. W. J. B.
Moncas, the branch...
Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough, who died on 28th Febru- ary, just before his seventieth birthday, served as an officer of the Flamborough life-boats for thirty-one years. From 1900 to 1911 he was second coxswain of the No. 2...
Category: Obituaries
During a dense fog on the evening of the 27th March the steam trawler Le Vieux Tigre, of Boulogne, ran on to the rocks at Beast Point. A moderate E.S.E.
wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. Lloyd's signal station re...
THE Hythe life-boat crew and their friends gave their third entertainment last February.1 This time it was a revue in four scenes called "Lifeboatania." It began with a representation of a storm and a rescue so realistic that the...
Category: Branches
FORT IN DANGER OF COLLAPSING Margate, Kent.—At 2.33 in the after- noon of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Com- mander-in-Chief at the Nore had asked that the life-boat should take off the crew of four of the...
Padstow, and St. Ires, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the evening of the 25th of Sept- ember, 1949, the Trevose Head coast- guard telephoned the Padstow life-boat authorities that a rowing boat with a crew of four was trying to get ashore in...
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1953, during thick fog, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had run ashore two hundred yards south of North Cheek in Robin Hood's Bay. At 12.20 the No. 1...
Aberdeen.—At 2.29 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1956, the coastguard reported that the Norweg- ian steamer Strindheim, laden with timber, was due to arrive off Aberdeen about eight o'clock in the evening and would want help...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary Secretary that red flares had been seen from the Shipwash lightvessel two miles to the north-west of the light- vessel's...