ME. J. F. JELLICO, the Honorary Secre- tary of the Port of Liverpool Branch, died early in August after a long illness.
He was in his sixty-ninth year. Mr.
Jelliro had been the Honorary Secretary (f that...
Category: Obituaries
Early publicity: this photograph of three committee members provided some excellent advance publicity for Banbury's 1986 flag week. Alan Pennington, Banbury branch publicity secretary, seen here sandwiched between chairman David Gittins... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TUB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 274 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 282 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
On the night of the 12th January the barque Britannia, of North Shields, bound from Mauritius to Greenock, got on shore, in moderate weather, on the north side of Port Logan Bay; the crew saving them- selves by climbing over the rocks at low...
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 12th of January, 1950, the life-boats from these two stations were out on service, assisting with the transhipment of survivors from H.M.
Submarine Truculent.—Rewards: Mar-...
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—A new 33- feet 10-oared Life-boat and carriage have been sent here in lieu of the old boat and carriage, which were becoming unfit for further service. The expense of the same was defrayed from the Life-boat Fund...
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Launches 4 Lives rescued 7 ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 1.3 in the afternoon of the 2nd of February, 1945, the naval officer in charge at Stranraer reported that an Anson aeroplane was in the sea in Luce Bay, five miles from the Mull...
Category: Services
28 January: Littlehampton Crew Member Jon Maidment is pictured with ‘Sammy’ the swan. The crew found Sammy bleeding and in distress with fishing line lodged in his throat, picked him up (but not without some...
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The following additional IRB services took place in April, July and August, 1969: No. 2 Life-boat Area Largs, Ayrshire - At 2.25 p.m. on llth August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing dinghy, with one crewman,...
Category: Services