WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...
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FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
Category: Inaugurations
THE first of the life-boat broadcasts in 1952 was in Children's Hour, on the 25th of January. It was in a series called " I'm Proud of My Father,' and the narrator was Miss May New- lands, daughter of Coxswain Duncan...
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Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 1.10 in the morning on the 17th of Septem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported a radio message from the tug Turmoil that the steamer Bisco 9, which she was tow- ing, had parted her tow and was drift- ing....
THE new life-boat station at the Lizard- Cadgwith was formally opened by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, who is himself a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, on the 7th July, 1961. His Royal Highness also named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
From ist April to 3Oth June, 1965, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 104 times. On 27 occassions - described in chronological order below - they were able K) rescue people in difficulties.
Mudeford, Hampshire....
Category: Services
THE Fortieth Anniversary of this excellent Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel on the 14th May, The EARL OF ABERDEEN, V.P., occupied the Chair on ' the occasion.
1 Amongst those present were— His Excellency the...
Category: Meetings
FEBRUARY 26TH - 27TH. - CAISTER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Caister that the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had just launched to a vessel on the east side of...
On September 22nd, during a fresh breeze at E.N.E., a burning tar-barrel was observed at this station from some distressed vessel in the direction of the east end of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Vulwm, with the Life-boat Bradford in tow,...
At noon on the 14th November the barque Broughton, of Liverpool, bound from Shields to Val- paraiso, was observed drifting towards the land east of Brighton, during a heavy gale from the W.S.W. The Broughton had lost her mizen-mast, and had...