Hastings, Sussex. At 3.29 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the mechanic that an angling boat Petchick II had been sent to the aid of a small dinghy which was in distress three quarters of a mile...
JANUARY 18TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 10.20 at night a message was received from the coastguard at Bangor that a vessel was in distress west of Wilson’s Point, Belfast Lough. A whole north-east gale was blowing, with...
Douglas, Isle of Man.—On the 5th of June, 1956. the harbour master was informed by the local agent of the tanker Pass of Balmaha, of London, that a member of her crew had had a seizure and was unconscious. The harbour master asked if the...
Soul searching There was extensive national and local TV, radio and press coverage in March of the painful unfolding story of a family lost to the sea at Scarborough. After an 11-year-old boy was swept off the front and his family attempted...
Category: Articles
THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE On the 7th January, 1943, the Humber life-boat rescued nineteen of the crew of H.M. Trawler Almondine.
COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS was awarded a clasp to his gold medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC...
Category: Medals
BOAT OWNERS were told the truth about salvage claims by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., at the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1967. He said it...
Category: Articles
Lee Johnson, the owner of a hairdressing salon in Lymington, raised £180 for the lifeboats with a raffle for a doll's house. He sold £90 worth of tickets himself and Lymington ladies' guild sold the rest.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At 6.45 A.M.
on the 19th April information was given to the Coxswain of the Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll that a vessel was ashore on the Newcome Sands. He immediately proceeded to the beach, and seeing the vessel's...
The Edinburgh andR. M.BalUmtyne life-boat, at Port Logan, saved 15 men from the barque Strathleven, of Glasgow, wrecked in Float Bay.
Teesmouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 5.3 in the morning of the 25th of December, 1950, the South Gare coast- guard telephoned the Teesmouth life- boat station that a ship was believedto be ashore on Saltscar Rocks. At 6.5 the...