On the even- ing of the 29th October, a telephone message was received from the pierhead that flares could be seen west of the pier. A whole W. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea and rain. The Motor Life-boat Greater London put out at...
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.17 on the evening of the 17th of December, 1960, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a vessel in Pegwell Bay was burning flares. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis was launched at 6.26, two...
Bronze Medal Service at Aberdeen.
ON the evening of Christmas Day, the Aberdeen trawler, George Stroud, with a crew of five, was steaming up the channel into Aberdeen harbour.
When about 200 yards inside...
Category: Services
Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...
IT has for a long period been the opinion of many naval officers, that every man-of war should be provided with an efficient life-boat; and we have from time to time advocated the same in this Journal. We are glad to know that there is now a...
Category: Articles
The three medal winners (left to right) Coxswain George Jappy of Buckie, Banffshire (bronze medal), Coxswain Derek Scott of The Mumbles, Glamorganshire (bronze medal) and Coxswain John King of Bridlington, Yorkshire (bronze medal)..
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ON the afternoon of 12th August a message was received at the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Station, that a sailingboat had capsized about a mile and a half from the shore, off Fort Victoria.
A moderate gale was blowing, and the...
Category: Services
THE Institution has recently lost three very distinguished secretaries of life- boat stations, for whose long services it is very grateful.
Mr. Alexander Robertson, of Eastbourne Mr. Alexander Robertson, of East- bourne,...
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The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund both received cheques for £475 in March as the result of a fire engine pull from Cheltenham to Tewksbury. The event saw Cheltenham branch members, together with local fire fighters... - View image in PDF
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Arwed Emminghaus (below), a 26.6 m rescue cruiser with daughter boat from the Federal Republic of Germany. Other foreign lifeboats which will visit Plymouth are Sigurd Golje, a 78' patrolling steel lifeboat from Sweden; Patron Emil... - View image in PDF
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