Penlee, Cornwall. On the 16th Decem- ber, 1961, the port medical officer in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Naess Pioneer of London, which was 120 miles from the Scilly Isles, was making for Mounts Bay to land her master...
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
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At 9.30 P.M. on the 26th September a vessel was ob- served making signals of distress on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were immediately assembled and the boat launched. She found the steam drifter Boadicea,...
DECEMBER 25TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At nine in the morning the coastguard reported that an SOS had been received from a vessel ashore on Fladdachuain Island off the north of Skye, but that another vessel was standing by. A...
At daylight on the 20th Oc- tober, the American ship, Annie E. Hooper, was first seen to be ashore on the Horse ! Bank, from Southport, distant five miles.
The life-boat there was at once launched, j and after much...
THE Board of Trade have recently placed in the hands of the public their annual Blue Book dealing with the shipping casualties which occur on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom ; the present number furnishing the relative statistics...
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Moved by Rear-Admiral the Earl TALBOT, C.B., and seconded by MONTAGUE GORE, Esq.,— 1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
Moved by Captain JOHN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy-Master of the Trinity House, and...
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AN appeal was again made, at the beginning of 1935, to the principal Golf Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland, asking them to hold competitions in aid of the life-boat service, for which the Institution would give silver and enamel spoons. As...
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More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
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SUPPORTED 80LXLY ET VOLONTAM OOKTEIBDnOHS.
jjotaram — g Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in 1881.
Agnes, schooner, of Llanelly .... 6 Albion, schooner, of Southampton 4 Aldebaran,...
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