Walmer, Kent. At 4.40 on the after- noon of the 6th August, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that some of the sailing dinghies taking part in a race from Deal to Ramsgate were missing. There was a fresh south-westerly...
— Just before midnight on the 12th-13th September the hopper No. 42, of London, which was making for Ply- mouth to coal, struck on the south side of the Plymouth Breakwater. The Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched to her assistance, and, on...
Coxswain William Johnston, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 3rd February last, at the age of sixty-five.
He had retired only five months before on account of ill health. Appointed Coxswain in 1915, he...
Category: Obituaries
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
Someone from the Vale of Glamorgan telephoned the Cardiff office to ask for a collecting box for her daughter's birthday party. She and her husband were worried by the fashion that expects bigger and bigger presents from guests invited...
Category: Donations
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— On the afternoon of 16th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that he had seen the sailing boat Sea-gull, of Lowestoft, capsize about three miles south of the harbour entrance. A fresh south breeze...
A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...
Lifeboat - in Danger's Hour by Patrick Howarth and published by Hamlyns was 'launched' at Eastbourne last April, when the author (r.} presented a copy to Coxwain/ Mechanic Ronald Wheeler. Chosen by the Booksellers Association as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The official party, including the Duke of Atholl (far I.) and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, aboard Invergordon lifeboat after the naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of T. Bailey Forman Newspapers Ltd.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
AN invention has recently been brought to perfection, and patented, which we think we may fairly charac- terize as one of the most ingenious of modern times. This invention, which is the production of Mr. J. Boydell, an engineer of...
Category: Articles