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We are now within four months of the end of our first century. The Institution was founded on 4th March, 1824, at a " Public Meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others held at the...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...

COXSWAIN David Cox, of Wells, Norfolk, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution on vellum for an attempted service to the yacht Kiskadee on the night of 29th-3oth August, 1964.

A report that a yacht was burning a red...

FINNISH STEAMER Dunbar, East Lothian. At noon on 27th May, 1964, a fisherman reported that a vessel had run ashore about three miles north of Dunbar. Twelve minutes later the life-boat Margaret put to sea.

There was a light...

For about 20 early lifeboats which have been fitted with air bags to give them a self-righting capability, there has been the possibility, in the event of a capsize, that water could enter the mast and find its way through the exhaust system...

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At 8.30 P.M., on the 22nd January, the Coastguard at Rye Harbour reported that a vessel in the bay was making distress signals.

Without delay the Life-boat John William Dudley was launched and proceeded to the craft,...