SILVER MEDAL SERVICE’ AT CLOUGHEY JUNE 17TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. The S.S. Arantzazu-Mendi, of Bilbao, had gone aground on Butter Pladdy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party...
Each year, as supporters of the RNLI make their way home from the Institution's annual meeting and presentation of awards, there is a feeling that surely the achievements of that year cannot be bettered.
Yet, each year...
Category: Meetings
ENGLAND.
ELEVEN naming ceremonies of motor life-boats were held during 1939, seven in England, three in Scotland and one in Wales. Three other ceremonies, one in England, and two in Ireland, were cancelled owing to the...
Category: Inaugurations
the RNLI's AGM and Presentation ot/ards The Barbican, in the City of London, was once again the venue for the RNLI's annual meetings - held this year on 15 May. The morning AGM allows the Chairman to present his review of the...
Category: Meetings
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL WITH ENGINE BREAKDOWN Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 7th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel appeared in difficulties about a quarter of a mile off...
With Summer around the corner, it may prove difficult to remember the frozen winter months, and as usual, the hardest hit by snow were Scotland and the North.
Sea transport showed its advantages in these conditions as RNLI...
AUGUST 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.35 in the morning a message was received from Hoylake coastguard that a Blenheim bomber was down off Walney Island, and the motor life-boat N.T. was launched immediately. A light...
FEBRUARY 28TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 4.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at five minutes past five. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very...
To the Coxswain and Crew of the Aith Hope Life-boat Samyntas Stannak, I respectfully dedicate these simple verses for their noble work on the iight of the 31st October. It 98, in connection with the disabled steamer Manchester City, during a...
Category: Poetry
Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.
D class...