Three Bronze Medals Awarded.
THERE were heavy seas round the coast whole gale was blowing at the time, and at the end of November, and on the 26th the Motor Life-boat and two tugs put out and 27th of that month ten...
Category: Services
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
THE Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited awarded a case of rum to the life-boat crew who carried out the longest continuous service during the winter months of 1953-54. The award was given to the Holyhead crew for the...
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AT a number of places round the coast wreaths were cast on the sea on llth November, in memory of men who lost their lives at sea during the war.
At Southwold, Suffolk, following the service in the parish church, the Mayor...
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18 October: The Mumbles Just as preparations for the Mumbles Oyster Festival were taking place, a visitor spotted a windsurfer in difficulty half a mile out to sea. The volunteers launched their inshore lifeboat...
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THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...
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LlEUTENA'NT-COLONEL CLEMENT RlCH- ARD SATTERTHWAITE, O.B.E., late of the Royal Engineers, who was deputy secretary of the Institution from 1925 to 1931, and secretary from 1931 to 1946, died in his sleep on the 5th of May, 1953. He was...
Category: Obituaries
A team of bowler-hatted waiters provided some oldfashioned service from the bar at Henley-on-Thames branch Old Tyme Music Hall last October. On an evening when manv of the audience also came in costume to join in the fun, £600 was... - View image in PDF
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Brothers found in failing light Brothers Aran and Marcus Farrell were fortunate to survive after the dinghy capsized in strong winds off Downderry and they tried to swim ashore in fading light. Looe lifeboat was alerted and quickly located...
Emsworth harbourmaster Sid Kennett is well known for announcing 'there's room fora goldfish to swim ' if his pint glass is not filled to the brim, but he was left speechless when Jan Jackson, landlady of the Bluebell Inn decided... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs