Friday, 21st May, 1920.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Major-General Sir COLERIDGE GROVE, K.C.B., who had been a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution...
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THURSDAY, 6th October, 1887.
L. T. CAVE, Esq., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vions Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, Building,...
Category: Committee
Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...
NOVEMBER 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.30 at night the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands. A south-easterly wind was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
THURSDAY, 12th April, 1894.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Combined Operation THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Appledore, North Devon, was informed at 3.26 a.m., on Wednesday, September 19, 1973, that a yacht was in distress 28 miles to the west of the lifeboat station.
The...
THURSDAY, 2nd October, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
On 30th January at 9 A.M., in consequence of a signal from the Hock Lighthouse, at the entrance of the Mersey, that a ship was in distress at the back the banks on "Square 43," the Lifeboat Willie and Arthur proceeded down the...
Saturday, 15th May, 1897.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...
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