AT 3.10 early on the morning of the 15th of December, 1953, the harbour radio station reported that the motor vessel Brockley Combe, of Bristol, had wirelessed that she had struck the Minquiers Reef and needed help immediately. The Brockley...
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CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard ' watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel found her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 10.50 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1948, the motor life-boat Tyne- sider was launched, with the honorary secretary, Mr. E. Selby Davidson, on board, to carry out trials with her radio- telephony, and...
EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
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AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...
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'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
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RNLI crew members and fundraisers were among the guests at the Buckingham Palace garden party on 14 July. Rhyl Coxswain Peter Robinson (pictured meeting HM The Queen) says: ‘It was an honour for my wife and myself to attend and we thoroughly...
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Aegis Insurance Services (Group) Ltd 110 Birds Eye Foods Ltd Outside Back Cover David Jolly (Tiller Master) 144 Maritime Book Society Loose Insert Mercantile Credit Inside Front Cover Fred Olsen Lines 140-141 and loose insert Peeks of...
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In memory of Captain C. C. Lowry, past chairman of Appledore station branch, a glass topped table was made to display lifeboat stamps of the world. The stamps were collected and the table made by staff and inmates of HM Prison, Dartmoor..<... - View image in PDF
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