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An Airliner (1)

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.

Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...

M.B.E. for Isle of Wight Secretary

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

CAPTAIN A. G. COLE, R.N.R., honorary secretary of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat station from 1934 to 1952, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List of 1953.He was awarded the...

Category: Awards

First Vellum Award for IRB Rescue

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

For the first time ever the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded for a service by an inshore rescue boat. The service was carried out by the Eastney IRB on 3ist October, 1965, when six men were saved from a...

Category: Awards

None (19)

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

Redcar, Yorks. At 6.55 p.m. on July, 1964, the coastguard told the lifeboat crew that three people were cut off by the tide on West Scar rocks. At 7 p.m.

the inshore rescue boat launched in a slight westerly breeze and calm...

Maratha Enterprise

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

Workington, Cumberland. At 7 p.m.

on I3th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Maratha Enterprise of Nassau.

The life-boat...

A Gannet Aircraft

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...

Takings Up at Downside's Souvenir Shop

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

Takings up at Downside's souvenir shop For several years the boys at Downside Lodge, Purley, have supported Purley's Lifeboat Week. They buy from the souvenir shop set up in the school hall each day and this year the gross takings at... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Newquay Jailbirds

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Seven members of the Newquay, Cornwall ladies lifeboat guild, who between them have given 183 years of service to the Institution, were overall winners in the Newquay Carnival in July.

The ladies, two of whom have been... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

M.B.E. for Norfolk Coxswain

Date: September 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 17

Coxswain Theodore Neilsen, of Wells, Norfolk, has been made a member of the Order of the British Empire. The services for which the award has been made have not been published. Coxswain Neilsen, went with the rest of the fishermen of Wells...

Category: Articles

A Boat

Date: July 1867

Volume: 06

Issue: 65

On the 27th December, during a heavy gale of wind, the Civil Service life-boat went off, and brought safely ashore 9 men from the Dogger Bank. They had been employed there by the Wexford Harbour Commissioners, and were unable to reach the...