With deep regret we record the following deaths: Due to space restrictions we regret that only coxswains or branch and guild officers with a minimum of 10 years service will appear in this obituary column.
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Coxswain James Adam who joined the Stromness lifeboat crew in 1946 and became coxswain in 1953, a position he held until 1963..
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BURRA ISLE, SHETLANDS. While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the 18th March, 1939, when the boat was...
Category: Services
LOBSTER BOAT'S CREW LOST Dunmore East, Co. Watcrford.—On the morning of the 2nd of May, 1947, news was received from Brownstown Head by the civic guard that a lobster fishing boat had not been heard of since seven o'clock the...
MR. R. C. BAVERSTOCK, former Assistant Secretary of the Institution, died on the 21st October. He joined the Institution's staff in 1909, and after a break during the first world war, when he served in the army, he was in the service...
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FROM time to time special attention has been drawn in the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL to the excellent work in life-saving done by means of Life-boats, etc., connected with the Life-boat services on the Continent and elsewhere, all of which have come...
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Front Cover A Pooie lifeboat crew member prepares to be winched from the station's Brede class lifeboat to Portland Coastguard Helicopter Whisky Bravo during an exercise off Studland last Autumn.
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