NOVEMBER 15TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 1.19 in the afternoon the St. Ives coastguard telephoned that a motor vessel was making for St. Ives Bay and required a pilot. A strong north wind was blowing, with a heavy sea, and...
From an Old Carthusian.
ON Trafalgar Day last year the Institu- tion received the following letter :— " In accordance with an old-estab- lished custom, I have pleasure in for- warding, in order to reach you on the 21st...
Category: Donations
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW at Earl's Court from January 4 to 14 was for us a memorable occasion because we were celebrating ten years of Shoreline. It was at the 1969 Boat Show that the first member of the original...
Category: Articles
October 1986 Henry Jones, a member of Reading and District branch for over 20 years having previously been associated with the ladies' guild in Reading..
Category: Obituaries
The RYA and Lombard make MARINE FINANCE SIMPLE For over 100 years the RYA has been looking after the interests of boat owners.
For almost as long Lombard has been providing finance to help people get...
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Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...
Category: Committee
Crew member swims to stranded yachtWells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...
Category: Services
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...
Category: Awards