A member of the Institution's staff, Mr. Thomas Edgar Langridge, was killed last Christmas morning. He was cycling along a snow-bound road in Wembley, near his home, when he collided with a motor car. Two hours later he died in hospital...
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ON SERVICE FOR THIRTEEN HOURS At 5.18 a.m. on the 26th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Ros Beara was asking for immediate assistance as something had fouled her propeller and she...
MFV founders THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Lochinver lifeboat station received a call from Stornoway Coastguard at 1633 on Thursday June 16, asking him to stand by because Lochinver police had just reported that an unknown vessel had...
Six fishermen saved by crew member in open fishing boatEamonn O'Leary, a member of Dun Laoghaire's All-weather lifeboat crew, has been awarded the Institution's Thanks inscribed on Vellum for a rescue which he carried out...
IN another column we give an account of the very fine service rendered by the crew of the Matthew Simpson, the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat, in rescuing the whole of the crew, eleven in number, of the Swedish barque Jacob Baiters, of...
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Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...
don't forget your flares lads! You may never need them - we hope you never do ! But it makes good sense to carry a pack of signal flares . . . as important as your lifejacket. Just in case ! THE WORLD'S BEST BY SCHERMULY See page 391...
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THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their tenth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 1st August, when the Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch. By collecting this year over...
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POBTMADOC, NOETH WALES.—At about 11.30 P.M., on the 6th of February, the Life-boat John Ashbury was launched, signals having been seen in the bay, during a strong S.S.W. wind and a heavy sea. She went in the direction of the light, which at...
Lady Moimtbatten, C.I., G.B.E..
D.C.V.O., wife of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma, died on the 21st of February, 1960, at the age of 58.
The wide range of charitable work with which she was...
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