Four saved from MFV among rocks in hurricane-force gustsCoxswain David Chant of the St Davids lifeboat, Dyfed, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of four fishermen in severe gales on 26...
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South Western Division Danish coaster capsized RAME HEAD Coastguard reported Plymouth deputy launching authority 1403 on January 16 that the Danish coaster Merc Enterprise was in serious difficulties 23 miles south of Plymouth breakwater,...
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PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
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Appledore, Devon - At 7.16 p.m. on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two boys were stranded on the rocks on the south side of Baggy point. The lifeboat Louisa Anne Hawker with the boarding boat in tow slipped...
Appledore, Devon - At 5.30 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, a visitor informed the mechanic that a person had disappeared while swimming across the river Torridge.
At 5.40 the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker set out. It was thirty...
(Above) At Twickenham and District branch's annual RNLJ ball, held at York House, Twickenham, on January 23, over £1,000 was raised by the tombola and raffle, for which more than 500 items were donated by local... - View image in PDF
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Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakers One Gold Medal Five Bronze Medals Two Thanks on Vellum with a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost...
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THURSDAY, 7th October, 1880.
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 Correspond-...
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