Torbay, Devon.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 1st of July, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that a boy had fallen over a cliff south of Berry Head coastguard look-out post. He had been badly hurt and, at 1.45 the life-boat...
Greater London.
CROYDON (SURREY).—Life-boat Collecting Boxes placed in the booking offices of the Air Lines and also at the Aerodrome Hotel.
BALING. — Drawing-room Meeting, given by Mrs. Brydges, wife of...
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fishing coble May Blossom, of Whitby, had a trying1 experience when making for Whitby on the 24th March. The coble had been out to the crab pots, and when returning a heavy easterly sea was breaking across the entrance of the harbour. The...
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 7.6 in the evening of the 1st of December, 1948, during a thick fog, the super- intendent of the Tay Ferry Service telephoned that the ferry steamer Sir William High, of Dundee, was overdue on a trip from...
THE Institution gets many letters from West Africa, asking for its "catalogue." Here is one of the latest. It comes from the Gold Coast.
"I am very happy to write you this letter. Please, sir, I beg you to...
Category: Correspondence
There will be single commemorative medals and sets of medals in gold, silver and bronze. These depicted here show the R.N.L.I, badge which will be on the reverse common to all, Henry Greathead's Original, Sir William Hillary, the founder...
Category: Medals
Length 11.77m (38ft 7in) Beam 4m (13ft) Displacement Approx. 14 tons Speed 16 knots Range 140 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Aluminium or FRC. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wessex HAR Mk 5 from HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-the-Solent, piloted by Lt Kay Colborne on exercise with Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour) Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II. In command of the ILB is Helmsman Adrian West, and with him are Crew Members... - View image in PDF
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DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
Category: Articles
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.39 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a party of naturalists had gone to Scroby Sands in a longshore boat and a small motor boat in the...