Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club past-president, hands over a cheque for £18,000 towards a new life-boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League headquarters, St. James's. The money was... - View image in PDF
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Dover, Kent.—At 11.48 on the night of the 9th of March, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a woman had scrambled down a cliff near St.
Margaret's Bay. She had gone down to comfort her dog, which had fallen...
ILB in near gale RED FLARES SIGHTED Off WhitStable Street Buoy were reported to the honorary secretary of Whitstable ILB station by Warden Point Coastguard, Isle of Sheppey, at 2342 on Friday, February 25. In view of the bad weather...
Lifeboats stand-by stranded cargo vessel in severe weatherThe chairman of the RNLI has written a letter of thanks to the coxswains and crews of the Padstow and St Ives lifeboats following a very difficult operation in storm-force winds.At...
K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., who died on the 5th of December, 1954, at the age of 61, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management for seven years.
He first joined the committee in 1947 as an ex-officio member when he was...
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Honorary Life-Governor.
Mr. ARTHUR E. HEAZELL, honorary secretary of the Nottingham and District branch, has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help which he has given...
Category: Awards
HOWTH, co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 7 succeeded in saving the ketch Ocean Pearl, of Wexford, and her crew of three hands on the 13th February. Shortly after 10 A.M. a message was received telephone that a vessel was drifting...
For the first time ever the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded for a service by an inshore rescue boat. The service was carried out by the Eastney IRB on 3ist October, 1965, when six men were saved from a...
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A close-up broadside view of the model: note the faithful reproduction of the anchor stowage and of the stanchions and guard chains: it took Mr Turland seven hours to fit just one of the bottle screws. Note also the buo ancy blocks behind... - View image in PDF
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MARCH 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 8.20 A.M. the coastguard reported a message from the S.S. High Wear that she was coming in with her engine-room flooded, that she was making water, and that a pilot should be ready. A few...