Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 21st December the Esthonian steamer Mina, of Parnu, got into difficulties through her rudder shaft breaking.
A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.
E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.
This stated that the...
Category: Services
Coxswain William Watts Williams, of St. David's, who died on the 7th Jan- uary, 1963, had served as coxswain of the St. David's life-boat for 19 years.
During this period the St. David's life- boat was launched...
Category: Obituaries
The tiny Much H'enlock brunch of the RNLI in the middle of England is reported to be 'suddenly doing very well indeed'. Here are some of its members in fund-raising form.
by courtesy of The Shropshire Star and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'Year of the Lifeboat' I pint Queens Ware mug by Wedgwood is illustrated (black on cream) with portrait of Sir William Hillary, founder of RNLI, and reproduction of painting of a lifeboat attending a wreck at the mouth of the Tyne,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Charlie Cocks In His Early Days. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the 1st November the Godsend Lifeboat was launched at about 3 P.M., having been signalled for by the crew of a yawl, which had gone out in the morning to the assistance of the s.s. Ferndale, of Sunderland, stranded on the North Scroby...
Margate, Kent.—At 12.30 P.M. on the 5th December, 1937, information was received that a barge flying a distress signal had been seen by the coastguard about three miles east of Reculvers.
The motor life-boat Lord...
Calshot: (I. to r.) Crew Members John Street, Christopher Smith and Peter King with the inflatable boarding boat in which they rescued three men from Ashlett Creek on the night of January 29. Winds were gale force 8 gusting to severe gale... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TOW FOR VESSEL WITH TWENTY PASSENGERS Barmouth, Merionethshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Welsh Girl, which had a crew of two and twenty...