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People and Places
Happy Christinas The American, Mr J. P. Young, is popular man among RNLI lifeboat crews. Every year he selects a different part of the coast for his generous gift of whisky to lifeboatmen. It is his way of showing admiration for the work...
Category: Articles
The Most Dangerous Part of a Boat...... is the skipper
Statistics show that more than half the RNLI's lifeboat launches are to pleasure craft. The situation is one which the pleasure boating fraternity is aware of, and which the sport's national body is making every effort to remedy.<...
Category: Articles
Relief Fleet -D Class British Diver Hi C Class British Diver Iv
Two new inshore lifeboats funded by the British Sub Aqua club were named and dedicated at a special ceremony on 24 October. This is believed to be the first 'double ceremony' for inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
International Yacht Paints
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An Aircraft
Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.11 on the evening of the 16th of January, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a local resident had heard an aircraft crash into the sea about four hundred yards from the old...
Life-Boat Branches of the Shipwreck Institution
FILEY BRANCH.
Chairman—Rear-Admiral MITFORD.
Honorary Secretary—JAMES MOSEY, Esq.
Airey, H. C., Esq. . .
Beswick, W., Esq. . .
Beswick, S. K., Esq...
Category: Branches
Spinel
Troon, Ayrshire. — At 4.15 in the morning of the 29th of February, 1948, the Kildonan coastguard asked for the life-boat's help for a vessel ashore one mile east of Pladda, and at five o'clock the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond,...
Thea, of Groningen (1)
APRIL 2 8TH. - BRIDLINGTON AND FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. On the night of the 27th the Dutch motor vessel Thea, of Groningen, bound with a cargo of china clay from Grangemouth to Antwerp, foundered in Bridlington Bay. She had eight on board....
A Coxswain's Memories of His First Service
Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...
Category: Services