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Lt Cdr Brian Miles the Rnli's Director
Cdr Brian Miles, the RNLI's director, is pictured collecting a cheque for £19,443, the result of a competition sponsored by Frizzell Insurance and Financial Services and which appeared in several editions of the Civil Service... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top of the Form: Alton Branch
Top of the form: Alton branch present an annual trophy to the pub in their area which raises the most money for the Institution. Since 1982, the trophy has, each year, gone to the Railway Hotel whose landlord, Max Reitzler, has collected... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contributions from Shipping Companies
As announced in the February issue of The Lifeboat, we propose to publish lists of the gifts received from shipping companies in gratitude for services rendered to their vessels by Life-boats.
To the list published in the...
Category: Donations
Cygnet
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 oil the evening of the 10th of July, 1950, a report was received that the sailing dinghy Cygnet was in a dangerous position, with two people on board waving for help. Sixteen minutes later the life-boat The Cuttle...
Glory
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 7.5 in the evening of the 12th of June, 1952, the harbour master received a report from a yachtsman that the fishing boat Glory, of Jersey, with one man on board, had broken down and was drifting seawards. The...
Rose Valley
COASTGUARD REPORT At 6.16 p.m. on ipth April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen three miles east-south-east of Wick Bay. There was a moderate north-easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and it...
A Fishing Boat (8)
OCTOBER 8TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. At about 2.45 A.M. a report was received that a fishing boat of Burtonport was missing. A very strong N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat K.T.J.S. was launched...
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LII. PLYMOUTH.—The Clemency, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.
ALTHOUGH the history of Plymouth is intimately connected with the exploits of the renowned and adventurous sailors of the Elizabethan era, it does not seem...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Doriefs
APPENDICITIS PATIENT Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.30 a.m.
on 4th January, 1964, a ship's agent in Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S. Doriefs of Monrovia had on board a sick man suffering from...
Port du Hurel
n complete contrast Alexander Coutanch was called out in a flat calm to another fishing vessel, Port du Hurel, when she struck rocks three miles SSE of the station on 17 July 1990.
Despite visibility officially descibed as...