Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : JOHN C. BYFORD, 6} years coxswain, 15} years second coxswain, and 18} years bowman of the Walton and...
Category: Awards
THE RNLI'S twentieth national lottery draw was made at Poole HQ on January 28 by Anita Harris, who had recentlytaken the name role of Robinson Crusoe in the highly successful pantomime at Poole Arts Centre. The draw was supervised by...
Category: Articles
ON the 4th of February, as reported in the Spring Journal, 1951, the Camp- be! town life-boat helped the frigate Loch Fada, which had got into diffi- culties with the landing craft Stalker in tow. The Loch Fada's command- ing officer...
Category: Correspondence
By the Rev. WILBERFORCE ROBINS, Honorary Secretary of the Seaton Branch.
Mr. Robins, who became the honorary secretary of the Seaton branch last year, has an association of nearly fifty years with the life-boat service....
Category: Articles
THE portrait on the cover is of Mr.
Harry Finch, who has been a member of the life-boat crew at Walton and Frinton, Essex, since May, 1907, except for the years 1914 to 1918, when he was on war service. He has taken part...
Category: Articles
AMONG those associated with the life-boat service upon whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours list were :— K.B.E. Vice-Admiral R. A. EWING, C.B., D.S.C., a member of the Committee of Management.
C.B.E. ...
Category: Awards
To ANDREW WHITE, on his retirement, after serving for 31J years as coxswain and 2 years as bowman of the Donaghadee life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To JOSIAH WHEATLEY, on his retirement,...
Category: Awards
IP one can judge by the energy and " push " which have during the last few months been exercised by our Life-boat Saturday Fund friends up and down the country, excellent financial results should be achieved. The summer is...
Category: Articles
THE disaster at Seaham Harbour, in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.
The life-boat capsized at...
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IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.
This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...
Category: Obituaries