Mrs J Dyer Gough. Ruthm branch president. She first joined the branch in 1977 and was elected president in 1982, Mrs Dyer was awarded the Statuette in 1996..
Category: Obituaries
HAVING HEARD from Aberdovey Coastguard at 1820 on August 10, 1974, that a member of the public had reported seeing someone falling out of a motor cabin cruiser crossing [Dovey Bar to seaward, Aberdovey honorary secretary immediately...
Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.2 on the afternoon of the 25th of November, 1952, a coastguardsman at Pett tele- phoned that a fishing boat was in diffi- culties near the shore off Rye. Later the Fairlight coastguard stated that she had apparently...
Weymouth, Dorset. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 13th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat needed help two miles east of the Shambles lightvessel. At 8.15 the life- boat Lloyd's was...
Swanage, Dorset. At 12.44 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a two-masted fishing vessel, Mary Anne, had hoisted a distress signal east of Durlston Head.
Her...
At about 3 P.M., the brig Jeune Adolf he, of Nantes, went ashore on the SouthSands, and the Life-boat immediately went to her assistance, and saved her crew, consisting of eight men..
On the 15th March, during a heavy gale from N.N.W., the brig Lord Gough, of Whitby, riding with several other vessels in Fishguard Bay, was considered to be in danger; and the crew, wishing to leave the vessel or run her for the beach, a...
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. — At 10.25 on the night of the 1st of Septem- ber, 1955, the P'ormby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht needed help three and a half miles west of Lytham pier.
At eleven o'clock...
Workington, Cumberland - At 7.20 p.m. on 31st March, 1969, the coastguard reported that the cabin cruiser Tracy Jane, with one crew member on board, was in difficulties between Parton and Harrington. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX...
Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 3.45 in the afternoon on the 2nd of April, 1950, fishermen reported that the fishing coble Jean and Valerie was making very heavy weather about four miles to the south. Accordingly at 4.10 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...