At 2.3 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, a visitor informed the honorary secretary that a small boy was adrift in a rubber dinghy. The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 2.25 in a gentle breeze and a slight sea. The tide was flooding....
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - GALWAY BAY. A man from the Spanish trawler Masso 18 had been carried out to sea in a small boat, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £13 16s..
JULY 31ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
A man bathing in Coldingham Bay had got into difficulties, but was drowned before help could reach him. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d..
On the 14th Nov. the Ramsgate Life- boat put off, during a fresh gale from the E., to the assistance of a vessel which had gone ashore on the Kentish Knock. After some trouble, owing to the very heavy sea, the Life-boat reached the vessel,...
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Lightship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the...
Honorary Life-Governor.
Mr. JAMES HARTLEY BURTON has been elected an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the valu- able help which he has given to the life- boat service both as honorary secretary of...
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That the life-boat service is busier every year is now becoming a clearly established fact, and it received further confirmation in the first six months of the present year. In 1965 an all-time record for launches was established, yet there...
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PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. —• A disaslrous shipwreck occurred on the Manacle rocks, near the Lizard, on thenight of the 14th October, involving the lamentable loss of 106 lives. The s.s.
Mohegan, of Hull, a large four-masted...
BY the death of Sir William Milligan, on 19th December, 1929, at the age of 65, the Manchester, Salford and District Branch has lost its Chairman, the Insti- tution one of its Vice-Presidents, and the whole Life-boat Service one of its most...
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A FFTNTTT V WITH AFFINITY WITH DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.
Not only will...
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