SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SOUTHEND - ON - SEA DECEMBER 6-11TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The gale of the 5th of December, in which the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) had been out for five hours and had towed in a...
KINGSTOWN.—On the 30th of September the brig Leonie, of Charlotte-Town, Nova Scotia, mistaking the Vanguard wreck-lightfor the Kish Light, ran into shoal-water off Bray, 7 miles south of Kingstown, where, after daylight, the master anchored...
Three saved from swamped dinghy Members of the Portsmouth lifeboat crew have also received framed letters of thanks from the Chairman of the RNL1 for their sen-ices during an earlier rescue. The helmsman for this service was Steve Alexander...
Wolverhampton branch's souvenir and publicity caravan, splendidly converted from a mobile hot dog stall, made its first appearance last May when Ken Dodd and the Mayor of Wolverhampton opened the town's Fiesta from its... - View image in PDF
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IN 1920 the Institution first experi- mented with a motor caterpillar tractor to be used in place of horses for launch- ing Life-boats on flat sandy beaches.
There are now eleven on the coast.
The type...
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FEBRUARY 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. The records of the life-boat service are full of stories of gallantry, but it is nearly always gallantry of coxswains and crews working together. The opportunities for personal gallantry by single men are...
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During foggy weather on the 25th May the schooner Princess of Thule, of Chester, bound from London to Liverpool, stranded on the Fish Rock, Treaddur Bay. At 4.30 A.M. the Life-boat Ramon Cabrera was launched to assist her, but just as she...
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Down. — 31st October. The coast- guard had telephoned that an aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea about one and a half miles S.E. of St.
John's...
On the night of the 16th December, the barque Strathleven, of Glasgow, was wrecked, during a strong wind W. by N., half a mile North of Float Bay, about seven miles from Port Logan.
The vessel was under double reefed...