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HMS. Cam
OCTOBER 4TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
On the night of the 3rd of October, HMS. Cam, with a crew of twenty-two, was being towed to West Hartlepool for repairs, by the American deep sea tug W.S.A.2. The Cam had no steam and the...
Coxswain Henry Blogg and "Monte."
THE photograph on page 132 shows Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer, with a dog which he rescued from the Italian steamer Monte Nevoso on 16th October of last year. Coxswain Blogg received the Institution's silver medal for this service, in...
Category: Articles
Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P.
Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P.
By the death of Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Newcastle, on 9th November last, the Institution has lost an old and valued supporter. For many years he was closely...
Category: Obituaries
A Dinghy
Rescued four SHORTLY BEFORE 1645 on March 27, 1987, a dinghy with five people on board capsized in the roads to the north west of Falmouth lifeboat station.
Mr John Pentecost, working nearby in his Quay Punt workboat...
Greystone and Lady Connaught
DECEMBER 27TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.10 A.M. the Hoylake coastguard reported that a vessel had been mined ten miles N.W. of the Bar Lightvessel, and the No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out. There was a light...
A Gift of Bass
Two anglers fishing for four days in the Solent, caught 550 bass, weighing about 10 cwts. They sold one day's catch for the benefit of the Life-boat Service..
Category: Donations
Front Cover
Front cover Shoreham lifeboatman Ian Cosham brings a small child to dry land during the terrible floods in Uckfield. For the full story see pages 14 & 16.
Photo © Steve Edwards, Shoreham lifeboat launcher.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Two stations celebrated their centen- aries in 1951: Lytham and New- biggin; and three in 1952: Cullercoats, Rhyl and Tenby.
A vellum was presented to each station by the Institution, signed by the Duchess of Kent as its...
Category: Articles
Emile Francqui
APRIL 3RD - 4TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.34 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that a vessel was believed to be ashore on Bell Rock, and at midnight the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong N.E. wind...