SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...
SEVEN new life-boats were named dur- ing 1953. Four of these boats are stationed on the English coast, at Bridlington, Ilfracombe, Flamborough and Peel; two are in Scotland, at Campbeltown and St. Abbs; and one is in Wales, at Pwllheli. An...
Category: Inaugurations
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Steadfast indeed I hope my comments will not throw your administration into a whirl, but being an ex-member of the Boys' Brigade and a Governor of the RNLI for many years, I was surprised to see in the latest Lifeboat that the new...
Category: Correspondence
Naming ceremonies Henry Alston Hewatai Mallaig Mallaig's new all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after the father of Catherine Hewat of Glasgow, who funded the majority of the £1,8m lifeboat with a bequest in excess of £...
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Mrs Evelyn Paley, donor of Appledore's Atlantic 75. Douglas Paley with divisonal inspector for the South. George Rawlinson. preparing the champagne.. - View image in PDF
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 14th day of March, 1871, His Grace the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 2nd of June, 1957, the piermaster telephoned to say that a motor cruiser was in a very dangerous position off the end of Brean Down and needed help. The life-boat Frank and...
At about 9.15 P.M. on the 7th January, during a heavy N.W. gale, a vessel was seen running for the harbour, but on nearing the entrance she missed stays and was driven on to Porthminster Beach, first striking heavily on Pednolver...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT ANGLE DECEMBER 18TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A gale was blowing from the south-west and a very rough sea was running. In the early evening a small Dutch ship, the motor vessel Thor, of Rotterdam,...