On the 24th November, at 5'30 A.M., signals of distress were observed to ,the northward. A strong gale from the E.S,E. was blow- ing at the time, accompanied with rain.
The Winterton life-boat was launched, and with...
At the end t September the Institution received another letter from the Air Council thanking it for the help which it had given in air-sea rescue work. That help, the Council sai.i had been 'of the greatest value to the Royal Air...
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Crew Member John Dew of Torbay was one of two men who rescued two elderly people when fire broke out in a block of flats in Brixham last October.
He had seen the flames while driving home, went to investigate and helped...
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JANUARY 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. January 26th was a Sunday, and Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., organist at St. David’s Cathedral and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, received a telephone message at the Cathedral during...
AT 5.30 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1953, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Thurso life- boat station that the steam trawler Sunlight was reported ashore on Holborn Head and in need of immed- iate...
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ESCORT FOR TANKER At 3.45 a.m. on I2th November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red rocket and searchlight had been seen from a vessel in the Crosby channel.
At four o'clock the life-boat White...
His GRACE THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, E.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, KG.
Seconded by The Eight Hon.
The EARL SPENCER, E.G., First Lord of the...
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Dinghy adrift in strong breeze THE HONORARY SECRETARY Of ThurSO lifeboat station saw a dinghy in difficulties in Thurso Bay with a small motor boat trying to tow her towards Scrabster but making little headway. Both boats were drifting east...
In 1944 life-boats rescued 714 lives and helped to save 50 boats, ships and aeroplanes from destruction. There were 455 launches of life-boats to the rescue and 178, or well over a third, were to aeroplanes..
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