THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
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Shortly before midnight on the 13-14th February a messenger reported that a vessel was ashore opposite Ardross Castle, half a mile east of Elie. It was blowing a S.S.W. gale with a heavy sea running.
The crew of the...
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 17, 25 and July 22 Abersoch, Gwynedd June 1, 2, 17, 20, 26, July 2, 8, 20, August 5, 16, 24, 25 and 27 Aberystwyth, Dyfed June 3, 17, July 30 and August 2 Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 26 Amble, Northumberland June 24 and...
Category: Services
Ashford held a Concert.
Barnes held a series of Dances, which were a great success. East Sheen held a Dance, and a Dance was organized at Erith by the local sea scouts.
Greenwich held a Whist Drive and...
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Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal "The Life-boat", stopped publication after the number for April, 1940. In its place single sheet bulletins will be issued from time to...
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COVERACK, CORNWALL.—About 6 A.M.
on the 21st February a four-masted steel barque—the Clan Graham, of nearly 2,000 tons register—while on a voyage from AJgoa Bay to the English Channel in ballast, ran aground on the rocks...
AN ABILITY TO KEEP ONE'S HEAD, regardless, seems to be one of the basic qualifications lifeboatmen need.
Especially when they find their world suddenly turned upside down.
Capsizing is not an everyday...
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MR. ARTHUR CAPEWELL, Q.C., a member of the Committee of Management, died on the 18th of October, 1957, at the age of 54. He was Deputy Chairman of the Somerset Quarter Sessions and held the posts of Counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees...
Category: Obituaries
FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At nine at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel with her engine broken down was lying to the north-west of Buckie, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched. A...
OC T . 2 3 RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and had last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M. Two...