Photographers save fishermen in GaleA rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards from the RNLI. The owner of the boat, Rick Tomlinson (a former crew...
1968 £ 279,243 674,846 954,089 1,303,598 220,000 ENDOWMENT FUNDS (Income only from which is available for expenditure in accordance with donors' directions) RESTRICTED FUNDS (To be applied as directed by donors) GENERAL FUND (see...
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The pas- senger steamer Duke of Abercorn, of Dublin, when returning from Bray Regatta on the evening of the 10th August stranded in a dense fog on the south-west corner of Dalkey Island.
The information of the accident was...
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 6.30 in the evening of the 20th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Bosphorus, of Oslo, of 2,111 tons, bound for Hull from Palestine, with a cargo of oranges and thirty-seven on board,...
Family brought ashore ON THE EVENING OF August bank holiday Monday, August 25, 1986, the week of Hurricane Charlie, the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat received a call from the coastguard to say that a family was marooned on their...
Michael Ashley, south east regional manager, presented the Roderick cup to Phil Barry, the proprietor of the Beachcomber Cafe, Barton-on-Sea, the winner of the annual competition for the top collecting box The ladies in the photograph are... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 29TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported drifting, but made fast to a buoy before the life-boat reached her. - Rewards, £27 1S. 6d..
Freighter sinks CROSSMA, the French Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Joburg, informed St Peter Port Radio, Guernsey, at 0104 on Tuesday January 24, 1984, that the Liberian freighter Radiant Med had developed a serious list 13 miles north west...
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Motor Mechanic P. N. Thomson and Crewman J. Anderson of the Whitby IRB who saved three people and a dog from a capsized cabin speedboat.
It was at 1845...
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