On the 20th April, the ship Nor" Wester, of Boston, U.S., with a crew of 24 men, bound from Cardiff to Monte Video with a cargo of coals, was passing this place in tow of a powerful steam-tug, when the wind sud- denly shifting from S.S...
Lifeboats stand-by stranded cargo vessel in severe weatherThe chairman of the RNLI has written a letter of thanks to the coxswains and crews of the Padstow and St Ives lifeboats following a very difficult operation in storm-force winds.At...
FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...
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Greater London.
Life-boat day was held in Greater London on 19th May, carried out by ninety-two branches. The amount raised was £5,046, an increase of £138 on 1935.
The challenge shield for...
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Dentist Neil Thomas (left foreground) with the crew and helpers of the New Brighton lifeboat after the service. - View image in PDF
(Photo Bob Bird). - View image in PDF
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DEC. 27TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the S.S. Kentwood, of London, was sink-ing rapidly in the north Downs, and that her captain was trying to beach her. The Ramsgate...
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.49 on the morn- ing of the ]4th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen from a vessel between Gull Stream Buoy and North Goodwin Buoy. At 5.2 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out....
Ex-Coxswain William G. Sutton, of Kingsdowne, who died on 29th Septem- ber at the age of seventy-seven, had been an officer of the life-boat for over sixteen years. He was second cox- swain from 1910 to 1921 and coxswain from then until 1927...
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BY the death of Sir William Milligan, on 19th December, 1929, at the age of 65, the Manchester, Salford and District Branch has lost its Chairman, the Insti- tution one of its Vice-Presidents, and the whole Life-boat Service one of its most...
Category: Obituaries