Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—1st October, 1939. A small trawler had been reported in a sinking condition fifty miles away, but another vessel took her in tow. The life-boat returned after being out for over nine hours.—Rewards, £16 2s. 9d....
The s.s. Brighton, of Newcastle, whilst bound from the North for Calais "on the llth June, stranded on Deal Bank. The vessel was observed from the shore, and the Reserve Life-boat, which is at present stationed at Deal, was launched...
For the more discerning palate on your Christmas list, look out for special packs of 10-year-old Talisker single malt with the Lifeboats logo.
These extra-special packs of award-winning Scotch whisky are now on sale in...
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JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...
Mr. Charles Ernest Link, who in 1963 received the highest award the R.N.L.I.
can make to an honorary worker, appointment as Honorary Life Governor, died on 29th July, 1969. For many years he worked tirelessly for the...
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The bronze medal foi gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain John Cornish, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, and its thanks on vellum to the acting motor mechanic, for rescuing thirteen lives from an Aberdeen trawler which had gone ashore in a Tery...
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Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893, "As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is 'That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.'...
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• Much in demand in recent years but soon out of print after its appearance in 1958, Cyril Jolly's book HenryBlogg ofCromer (George Harrap.
£1.90) has been reprinted with the usual...
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THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...
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LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...
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