Under the heading " More Motor Life-boats " the following letter from the Secretary of the Institution appeared in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce on the 22nd April, 1920 :.— SIR,—I have read with much pleasure in a recent issue...
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Three rescued after yacht is rolled in storm force windsA Courtmacsherry Harbour trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: March 1 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 19. May 4, 5 and 11 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 10 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: March 28. April 7. May 7. 19 and 20 (twice) Aldeburgh. Suffolk...
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Cromer, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 17th of June, 1950, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Glamis, of Dundee, four miles to the northward, had wirelessed for a doctor. At 9.32, with the honorary secretary, Major E. Peter...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 26th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a patient at Knoydart needed urgent medical treatment. As no other boat was available, the life- boat E. M....
AMONG those associated with the life-boat service upon whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours list were :— K.B.E. Vice-Admiral R. A. EWING, C.B., D.S.C., a member of the Committee of Management.
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THE Annual General Meeting was held at the Mansion House, in the morning of March 4th, 1924, for the purpose of dealing with statutory business, S r Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee, presiding.
The CHAIRMAN :...
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To Mr. H. S. COLE, upon his retirement after 10J years' service as Honorary Secretary of the Rhosneigir Branch, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
To Mr. B. H. JONES, upon his retirement after 18...
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It was a dark and stormy night...
The Invergordon lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was launched just before midnight on 10 May 2002, following reports that two craft were overdue at Golspie, in winds of Force 5-6. Contact was...