Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.40 in the evening, on the 30th of No- vember, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making a flare off North Head. At 5.55 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow, was launched in a moderate sea...
Launches 27. Lives Rescued 5.
APRIL 9TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that the 7,000-ton S.S. Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward...
Category: Services
THE two new motor life-boats stationed at Cromer in 1934 and 1935 were named this year by the Right Hon.
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.R, Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
The...
Category: Inaugurations
Since they were shown a film by Mrs. Angela Wooldridge, secretary of the Stourbridge branch of the R.N.L.I., the children at Hob Green Infants' School, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, have taken a special interest in the life-boat service....
Category: Articles
AT a luncheon of the Rotary Club at Deptford in July last an address was given by the District Organizing Secre- tary for Greater London. In the course of the address he referred to the fact that the engines used in Life-boats wereof the...
Category: Articles
Mrs Barbara Wentworth, Central London Women's Committee, has given the Mirror dinghy she won at the Lifeboat and Mermaid ball last December to Samuel Lithgow Boys'" Club. At a handing over ceremony in Regents Park last May, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THORPE.—On the 10th November, the schooner Margaret, of Goole, riding off Thorpeness during a S.S.W. gale, was observed to drag her anchor. She slipped her cable, but her rudder chains broke, she became unmanageable, and drove on to the...
" A dirty night, lads, bear a hand, It's blowing dead upon the land.
A ship 's ashore—just off the bar; She's all but gone—lost every spar.
Be lively, lads, and launch the craft; Stand by,...
Category: Poetry
The Nicholsons and the donors' families celebrate the first Tamar naming. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...