Ferry horror ppy endingEven experienced sailors can sometimes get caught out by unusual circumstances. Saturday 5 May was a bright, clear day, one of the first weekends this year with ideal weather for a pleasant day's...
DURING April, May, June and July the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recogni- tion of their services in the cause of the Institution:— To Mr. S. J. R. LEGEHTON, on his...
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We learn from the 15th Annual Report of the Rocket Stations on the Coast of Yorkshire and elsewhere, just issued by Mr. CARTE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Hull, that during the past year two new rocket stations have been established at Portland...
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PORTMADOC.—On the morning of the 9th of December, 1854, the wind blowing hard from N.N.W. at the time, two large threemasted vessels were observed from Portmadoc to be on shore on the St. Patrick's Causeway, a dangerous shoal of several...
Category: Services
THE new Sennen Cove life-boat is a gift to the Life-boat Service from one of its most generous benefactors, the late Mr. Charles Carr Ashley, who died at Mentone in 1906. He bequeathed his estate to the Institution, subject to a number of...
Category: Inaugurations
WE regret to report the death of Mr. ROBERT BIRKBECK, which took place on the 19th November, 1920, at the age of eighty-three after a loug illness.
Mr. Birkbeck had been a Member of the Committee of Management since ability...
Category: Obituaries
The following account of a service carried out by the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat on the 26th of March, 1960, was received too late for inclusion in the June 1960 number of the Life-boat : At 5.5 in the afternoon, the coast- guard informed...
Haven Knox-Jofyiston The Pleasure Craft rers To obtain a competitive quotation with wide cover in plain English Fax or Freepost the coupon below We will make a donation i to the RNLI for every j policy issued.
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With deep regret we record the following deaths: August 1995 Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Clark CM GM, Former national organiser for RNLI in Ireland from 1967 to 1982.
September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland...
Category: Obituaries
L-R: Pip (40), Stuart (23) and Francis (20]. - View image in PDF
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