February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
Category: Services
DURING September life-boats went out on service 68 times and rescued 25 lives.
TWICE AGROUND Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of...
Category: Services
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.52 on the night of the 14th May, 1961, a report was received from the Golden Sands holiday camp that a yacht had capsized half-a-mile off shore in Kinmel Bay.
Three minutes later, when the life-boat...
Launches 70 Lives rescued 107
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...
Category: Services
THE GLASGOW Lewis and Harris Association Cup, presented annually to the person or persons who during the year had done most to bring credit or honour to the island, was awarded last year to Coxswain Calum MacDonald and the crew of Stornoway...
Category: Articles
Mr. Ken Adams, of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, has been awarded a certifi- cate by the R.N.L.I. as the writer of what was, in the Institution's opinion, the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat published in 1968. His...
Category: Awards
Keen knitter, Mrs Lillian Hammond, a resident of a nursing home in Hunstanton, has raised £80 for Hunstanton lifeboat through the making and selling of soft toys. Mrs Hammond, who is bed-ridden, sells the toys to friends, visitors and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
1st February to 30th April, 1934.
Greater London.
ACTON.—Annual meeting, the Mayoress in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing secretary. Amount col- lected in 1933 £93, the...
Category: Branches
SEVEN AT SEA Whitby, Yorkshire. At 1.30 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that seven fishing cobles were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. There was a strong gale from the north with a rough...