H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron.AT the end of 1923, H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who had already shown her personal interest in the Life-boat Service by becoming Pre- sident of the Kensington Branch on...
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EVEN the most sanguine supporters of the "Life-boat Saturday" movement cannot fail to be gratified with the remarkable manner in which this popular organisation, aided by the Ladies' Committees, formed as an auxiliary for...
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DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
Padstow, Cornwall.—23rd November, 1938. A steamer had been reported in distress twenty miles off Trevose Head, but she hauled down her signal and steamed away.—Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
Selsey, Sussex.—24th January, 1939.
An aircraft had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.— Rewards, £8 18s..
Ramsgate, Kent.—28th July, 1939.
A'man who had put out in a speed-boat was reported as missing, but he had returned safely.-—Rewards, £10 11*..
29th Nov- ember. It was reported that a rowing boat had been seen in difficulties, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £17 3s..
21st December. An aeroplane reported to have been lost in the fog came down safely in the Medway.— Rewards : Clacton, £16 19s.; Southend, £17 14s..