Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: January 1987 Cyril Mayo, chairman of Warmley branch since 1974, two years after he first became a member. He was awarded a statuette in 1983.
February 1987 Robert...
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By Commander E. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
WE left Cowes just before 7 A.M. of the 4th October. I had with me the Blyth Coxswain and three men, the Blyth Motor Mechanic, the...
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On the 6th December the brig Champion, of Shoreham, was observed in the direc- tion of the Gorton Sand during a N.E.
gale, with a heavy sea. The Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat put off to her assistance, and found that she was...
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. He was appointed second coxswain in 1941 and after a break for war service became coxswain in 1947. In 1958 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for a service in which...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.49 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men, who had put out in a rowing boat to search for a body reported in the water, were in difficulties off...
Wick, Caithness - At 10 a.m. on 15th May, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Alphia was in difficulties just offshore at the south head of Wick bay. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at...
Carol singers were out in force before Christmas. In the London area, members of the Mermaid Committee raised £40.41, and Frances Brace with a group of her friends from Forms 5 and 6 of Godolphin and Latymer School collected £93.46...
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The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7* feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
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