• MAJOR John Showell-Rogers, R.M., is the station honorary secretary at Poole, Dorset, where there is a 35-foot 6-inch Liverpool type life-boat, the George Elmy, and a Dell Q.uay dory inshore life-boat with the hull number...
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Boats for Plymouth and Aberdeen.
IN October, 1924, the Institution laid down two more Motor Life-boats of the Barnett Twin-Screw type for Plymouth and Aberdeen. The first reached her Station on July 1st, and the 2nd on...
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Mr. Herbert F. Lancashire, a member of the Committee of Management and the Chairman of the Nottingham and District Branch, died on 30th January last, and the Committee deeply regret i the loss of a most valued colleague....
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CAPTAIN His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK, B.N., K.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by Capt. H.R.H. The DUKE OF YORK, E.N., KG.
Seconded by His Grace The DUKE OF NORFOLK, KG., Postmaster- General.
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At 6.30 P.M.
on the 25th March a small motor fishing-boat named the Golden Rule was seen to be in danger in the heavy sea, and unable to make the harbour owing to the low tide. It was, there- fore, considered advisable...
At 4.45 p.m. on 7th July, 1966, a radio message was picked up that the m.f.v.
Angus Rose had run out of fuel 13 miles east-south-east of Scurdyness. The lifeboat The Good Hope was launched at 5 o'clock with a supply of...
CAPITAL SHI: H.M.S. WARSP1TE H.M.S. HOOD H.M.S. DUKE OF YORK Print Size 13" x 9" The might and majesty of Britains 'Senior Service' comes alive in this series of superb signed colour prints by Philip Boville. Produced by...
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Couple rescued from foot of cliffs Redcar lifeboat helmsman Peter Hodge has been awarded a Bronze Medal for the outstanding rescue of two walkers and a dog cut off by the tide on 19 January. The couple and dog were trapped atthe foot of high...
On the 10th November, the Lowestoft life-boat was again instrumental in saving lives. The barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen, struck on the Newcombe Sand, in a south- westerly gale, and hoisted a signal of distress.
The...
LOWESTOFT.—During a heavy gale from the N.E., on the 28th October, several shipwrecks, with loss of life, took place off Lowestoft. At about 11 P.M. the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat, after much regrettable delay and difficulty, was launched and...