SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
THE LONG SERVICE BADGE, introduced from January 1, 1982, for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more, has been awarded to: Aberdeen Assistant Mechanic G. Walker Crew Member W. Cowpcr Crew Member F....
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MR. S. S. JERRETT, of Liverpool and New Brighton, who died on the 9th November last, at the age of seventy- four, was for over thirty years associ- ated with the Life-boat Station at New Brighton. The son of a sea-captain, he was connected...
Category: Obituaries
WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has been recently founded at Wicklow, and a life-boat on Mr. BEECHING'S prize model modified in correspondence with the boats on the Institution's plan has been...
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It's cold, and you're tired and hungry - but the boat comes first. Crew members from Salcombe lend a willing hand as Princess Royal takes fuel soon after first light on a grey and chilly morning in Salcombe. after her overnight... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
Newhaven, Sussex. — At 7.5 On the evening of the 28th of August, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel, with another in tow, had broken down off Beachy Head lighthouse. Later reports said that the vessels were drifting. At 8.8 the life...
from page 87 Miss F. M. Coleman Honorary secretary of Shipston-on- Stour branch since 1940; awarded record of thanks in 1948 and silver badge in 1963.
Mrs A. L. Kenyon President of Bramhall and Woodford ladies' guild...
Category: Meetings
WALMER AND KINGSDOWNE.—On the morning of the 9th October the South Sand Head Light Vessel fired signals indicating that a vessel was in distress, and the Coastguard on duty at Walmer at.once reported the fact to the Coxswain of the Life-boat...
ABOUT 4.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the coastguard at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, reported that a small steamer was in distress. She was the Fermanagh, of Belfast, bound light for Llanelly. A gale was blowing from the south-west, with...
Category: Services