HRH The Duke of Kent makes his address before presenting the awards in the Royal Festival Hall.. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 29TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
The Isle of Man Steam Packet Passenger and Mail Boat, Rushen Castle, with 150 passengers and crew on board, left Liverpool at 10 A.M. on the 27th January, 1940, and arrived in Douglas Bay...
Naming Ceremony of the New Sunderland Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Major-General Ralph Farrant, new Chairman of the Institution.. - View image in PDF
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Ll'.-Commander Harold Harvey, divisional inspector: 'the responsibility of an admiral and the authority of a midshipman'.. - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 18TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The American steamer Santa Cecilia, of New York, had collided with the American escorting destroyer Camp, but other vessels took them in tow. - Rewards, £10 4s..
MAY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.40 in the morning a message was received from Southend coastguard that a vessel was burning flares and firing rockets three miles east of Southend pier. A strong easterly breeze was blowing, and...
FEBRUARY 17TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
Shortly before noon the coastguard at Stepper Point reported, by telephone, distress signals from a trawler four miles north-west-by-north of Trevose Head. A fresh northerly wind was...
The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched on the 3rd February to assist the crew of the Berwick-on-Tweed Life- boat to make the Holy Island Harbour safely.
The Berwick Life-boat had put off in a strong northerly gale and...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 14th of May, 1954, the Irish corvette Maev entered Rosslare Ray and signalled that she needed a boat to land a sick man, as her motor cutter was out of com- mission. The sea...