FEBRUARY 16TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.10 in the morning the coastguard reported to the North Sunderland life-boat station that a ship was ashore on the Farne Islands. She was the S.S....
At midnight on the 13th, in reply to signals from the Gull Lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, in a strong breeze at W.S.W., and proceeded under sail to the assistance of the barque Fleetwing, of Newcastle, bound...
Major-General J. Boughey, of Bran- caster, Norfolk, who died on 20th February, in his eighty-eighth year, was Honorary Secretary of the Station from 1907 until his death. In recognition of his services, he was awarded Binoculars in 1920..<...
Category: Obituaries
August John 'Jinks' Smith, former Portpatrick lifeboat crew member died aged 70. John was the last surviving member of the crew that went to the aid of the stricken Princess Victoria m 1953..
Category: Obituaries
The Duchess of Sutherland, who had been the President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1926, died last August. She has been succeeded as President by Lady Louis Mountbattcn, who has been a vice-president of the guild since 1926..<...
Category: Articles
DOUGLAS, ISLE or MAN.—On the 16th September, at 1 P.M., a vessel was observed about eight miles off Douglas Head showing signals of distress. The wind *?as blowing a whole gale from the W. at the time. The No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-...
The schooner Kate, of Peel, bound to Runcorn from Looe, with a crew of four and a cargo of china clay, was sheltering in Moelfre Roads on the 31st January when she caught fire. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain....
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1951, the honorary secre- tary was on the sea front and saw a local motor fishing boat two miles to the west of the life-boat station drift- ing rapidly. She had...
Lytham - St. - Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.32 in the evening, on the 17th of November, 1950, the police telephoned that the S.S. Empire Gaelic had wire- lessed them. She had heard cries for help from the marshes near the third mile light on...
Newhaven, Sussex - At 5.47 p.m. on 24th November, 1966, a report came from Roedean School that cries for help had been heard from just off the cliffs.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launchedat 5.55. It was three hours...