Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Scarborough fishing boat Pilot Me II was bound for Whitby with engine trouble, and that the Scarborough life- boat was with her. At...
AUGUST 8TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A convoy of ships had been attacked from the air and some of them had been sunk. The life-boat. put out with the honorary secretary of the station, a naval surgeon and a policeman on board, but a...
Three honorary secretaries of life-boat stations, Mr. Walter Riggs, of Aldeburgh, Mr. G. Scantlebury, of Plymouth, and Mr. G. L. Thomson, of Stromness, Orknays, were made Members of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours in...
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A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..
Category: Donations
DOVER: OCTOBER 30, 1979 IT WAS PARTICULARLY FITTING that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother should agree to visit Dover to name the new lifeboat, for she is not only a Patron of the RNLI, but earlier last year she was installed as...
Category: Inaugurations
Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at half past eleven in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1948, as two fishing cobles were overdue and a moderate west-south-west gale was blowing...
Shortly after 5 A.M. on 24th November a vessel was observed in the bay in dangerous prox- imity to the shore. The crew of the Life-boat Marianne L. Say were sum- moned and the boat launched. The wreck was reached at 6.30 A.M. and proved to...
JULY 14TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.43 in the morning the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that there was a boat about two miles off shore, and, a few minutes later, that she was hove to and showing a distress signal. The...
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. During the morning a telephone message was received from Union Hall post office that a fishing boat was in difficulties.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Bolinders Company Ltd. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 431 Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd. 425 C.A.V. Ltd 435 Coastal Radio Ltd 429 Cogswell & Harrison Ltd 429 C.W.C. Equipment Ltd 431 Dagenite...
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