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THE 28th September of this year was the centenary of the death of William Wouldhave, of South Shields, whose name will always be honourably remem- bered, with those of Lionel Lukin, of London, and John Greathead, also of South Shields, as...

THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Motor Mechanic P. N. Thomson and Crewman J. Anderson of the Whitby IRB who saved three people and a dog from a capsized cabin speedboat.

It was at 1845...

Mr. Alfred Belk, of Hartlepool, an alderman, borough recorder, town clerk and justices' clerk, who died on 4th December, 1937, at the age of eighty- four, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Hartlepool station five years...

TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY LIGHTVESSEL The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 12th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about six miles east-south-east of the Scar...

Sheringham and Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, a hotel porter told the Sheringham life-boat station that he had seen red rockets off Weybourne.

Four minutes later the Cromer coast- guard...

Mr. H. C. WHITEHEAD, has been appointed an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered as Honorary Secretary of the Appledore Life-boat Station for 28 years; and has been presented with a...

Armistice Day last year was celebrated by the Life-boat Crew at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston in the same way as during the previous two years.

The Crew, headed by the Coxswain and Second Coxswain, each bearing a wreath,...