MAINMAST SNAPS IN TALL SHIPS RACE St. Peter Port, Guernsey. On the 14th August, 1962, the 50-foot auxiliary gaff yawl Duet had been taking part in the Tall Ships Race and was about twentyfive miles off the west coast of Guernsey on the way...
SIR ARTHUR. QUILLER-COUCH, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and Commodore of the Fowey Yacht Club, presented to the Institution on 26th July at Coverack, Cornwall, a motor life-boat which has been built out of a...
Category: Inaugurations
AT 10.20 on the night of the 27th of July, 1952, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned the Flam- borough life-boat station that a young man had reported a friend of his in difficulties on a cliff near the Stacks Rocks at Flamborough...
Category: Services
OCTOBER 17TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 4.15 P.M. the motor life-boat City of Bradford No. I, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to take a priest and doctor to a sick woman on Inisherr Island. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W. and the...
26th July. A steamer making for Dover was seen to have flames coming from her funnel, but she did not need help.—Rewards, £3 15s..
Hastings, Sussex.—6th July, 1939. A boat had been reported off Bexhill, partly submerged, but she could not be found.—Rewards, £31 16s. Qd..
Eastbourne, Sussex. — 30th July, 1939. A small sailing yacht with three people on board was reported as missing, but she got in safely.—Rewards, £9 15*. 6d..
A severe shock was imposed upon the Yorkshire south west district of Young Farmers clubs on 2 July as they started the annual Honley and Brockholes branch lifeboat pull.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
JULY 9TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. A canoe had capsized with two people on board, but the police rescued them from the shore with lines.-Rewards, £5 13s..
JULY 23RD. - DUNGENESS, KENT. A small yacht had capsized, but her crew of two were rescued by a motor boat from Rye Harbour. - Rewards, £11 3s. 6d..