MAY 28TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A raft with people on board had been reported three miles south of the pier, but it was found to be a hatch with five gulls perched on it. - Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..
By COMMODORE THE DUKE OF MONTROSE, K.T., C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., R.N.V.R., Treasurer of the Royal National Life-boat Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council.
THIS has been a great event in the...
Category: Meetings
AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...
Category: Committee
‘ He risked his life to get us out’
When two young people found themselves trapped in a cave facing a surging, rising tide, would anyone be able to find them – and get them to safety?
The afternoon of 5...
Category: Articles
20th Feb- ruary. A steamer was drifting with damaged steering gear, but repaired it and did not require help.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
George Hackett, chairman of Oldbury branch since it was formed in 1968. He was awarded a framed letter of thanks in 1976 and a silver badge in 1989..
Category: Obituaries
DEC. 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKboats SHIRE. Flares had been reported, but it was learned later that they had been dropped by aeroplanes on night exercises, - Rewards, £20 12s. 6d..
SEPTEMBER 9TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. A rowing boat had been reported drifting out to sea, but it was carried back by the tide. - Rewards, £5 11s..
A Dutchman in London, unable to send his usual subscription of £10 tc his own life-boat Service in the Netherlands, has sent it instead to the Institution..
Category: Articles
NOVEMBER 18- 20TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked by...