MAY 31ST. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Men had been reported aboard an R.A.F. target raft, but they were cormorants which flew away as the life-boat approached. - Rewards, £8 1s..
ON the 5th of June, 1952, Mrs. Sean O'Kelly, the wife of the President of the Republic of Ireland, named at Wexford the new Rosslare Harbour life-boat, which the committee of management had decided, with the approval of the government of...
Category: Inaugurations
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FLEETWOOD AUGUST 5TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. On the 4th of August, 1941, a half gale was blowing from the north-north-west, with squalls and a rough sea. A three-masted motor schooner of 300 tons, the Stella Marie,...
IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...
Category: Articles
25th July.
Schooner ashore on rocks. Captain did not wish to leave, so Life-boat returned and informed owner.—Rewards, £14 9s..
Clacton-on-Sea, Esses. — 27th July.
Flares had been reported, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £13 1*..
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—21st July. The Norwegian steamer Havso, of Arendal, had sunk, but her crew reached safety in her boats.—Rewards, £8 10s..
Poole and Bournemouth, and Swanage, Dorset.—3rd July, 1937. A yacht had stranded, but her crew reached safety with help from the shore.—Rewards, Poole and Bournemouth, £19 13s. ; Swanage, £11 4s..
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — 27th July, 1938. A fishing party in a sailing boat had been caught in a storm, but they were taken in tow by a motor boat.—Rewards, £8 4s..
Newhaven, Sussex.—27th July, 1939.
A yacht was on fire, but the people on board were rescued by a fishing boat.— Rewards, £10 15s. 6d..