Padstow April 15, 1985 The strong gales that had lashed the Cornish coasts during the weekend subsided in time for Monday April 15, which dawned overcast but calm and dry. By mid-day the crowds were beginning to line the tiny harbour's...
Category: Inaugurations
. . And (below) for the Duke there is always time to talk with the children. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Spectrum Photographic Studio. - View image in PDF
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IN his address at the Annual Meeting, the Prince of Wales referred to the number of services to foreign vessels performed during 1920, and said that there was " no nation possessing a coast- line and any ships which had not benefited at...
Category: Services
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Lifeboat Services (from page 190} Enterprise dinghy Spirtle with one man on board, at 1648. The Pentland Firth Yacht Club's guard boat, The Mendicant, was still in attendance but was unable to make headway in the prevailing...
Category: Services
The Newquay life-boat station was established in 1860. Its life-boats have been launched fifty- one times on service and have rescued 103 lives. It has the steepest launching slipway on our coasts, with a gradient of 1 in 2f, and the... - View image in PDF
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TYBELLA, Co. DOWH. — On the 14th August the Memorial Life-boat, ia reply to a signal shown from the ship Henry, of St. John, N.B., during a S. wind and a heavy sea, was launched, and at the master's request brought ashore five fishermen...
To Commander EDWARD D. DRURY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Northern District, in recognition of his high sense of devotion to duty when taking Life-boats to their Stations under arduous conditions, and especially the...
Category: Awards
THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRK.—While a whole gale from W.N.W. was raging, accompanied by a very heavy sea and rain, on the night of the 5th January, 1902, signals of distress were observed from the schooners Emma Louise and Elizabeth Miller, both...
Category: Services
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 1.42 on theafternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Colebrook had the sailing boat Dolores in tow and her master had asked to be relieved of the tow off Ramsey...