HM The Queen breaks the traditional champagne bottle against the lifeboat as RNLI Chairman Peter Nicholson looks on. Picture: Simon Cuiiiford. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 18TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. An American tug had been reported in distress, and an escort vessel had been sent out, but later it was reported that everything was normal and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £18 10s....
On the very hot, sunny day of June 6, Mrs Irene Carrington, wife of the president of the St Ives, Huntingdonshire, Rotary Club, named the new D class ILB for Wells station Spirit of Rotary, pouring champagne over her bows. The St Ives branch... - View image in PDF
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ON the night of the 3rd of November, 1951, a south-west gale was blowing on the south coast of Cornwall, with heavy rain. The night was very dark. A small Spanish steamer the Mina Cantiquin, of Gijon, with a crew of seventeen, was steaming...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 1st of August, 1954, twelve members of an angling club went in a motor boat to the Calf of Man, but during the afternoon the weather grew worse and prevented them from returning. At three...
Coxswain Joseph Parkinson of Lytham-St.-Anne's died while still in the service of the Institution on the 17th of March, 1959, at the age of 59.
He was assistant mechanic from 1931 to 1957 and coxswain from 1947 to...
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St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—Early on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1955, the local fishing boat True Vine put out with a crew of four. She had not returned by mid-day, and at 12.35, half an hour before high water, the life- boat W. Ross...
St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.30 on the evening of the 9th of October, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the harbour office that red flares had been seen in St. Ouen Bay. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon put out at 6.49 in a...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.10 a.m. on 5th December, 1964, the use of the life-boat was requested to transfer a sick person from Herm Island to Guernsey.
At 5.32 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out into a smooth sea...