Captain Mark Kerr DFC RN, honorary secretary of Clovelly lifeboat station from 1973 to 1983..
Category: Obituaries
Galway Bay.—At 2.30 in the morn- ing of the 18th of August, 1949, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take to the mainland a boy who was on holiday in Kilronan, had fallen ill, and must be operated on immediately. No other boat was...
600-TON CARGO VESSEL AGROUND Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 5.48 on the evening of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a radio message from Valentia radio station that the 600-ton cargo vessel Holmfield of Liverpool, on...
ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
Category: Services
SEPT. 25TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in thechannel between Hastings and Le Treport.
No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the...
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
Category: Services
In 1940 the Manchester and Salford Branch launched an appeal for £10,000 to build a motor life-boat to replace the life-boat which had been lost in the evacuation of the B. E. F. from Dunkirk. That fund has now been completed. It has...
Category: Articles
CREW RESCUED At 4.25 a.m. on 9th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Herd was ashore near Fraserburgh.
Later the coastguard reported that red flares had been...
Sweet William's personal appearance (above) with John Noakes on the BBC's 'Blue Peter' programme, Thursday May 25.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs