Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Deo Gratias on 23rd November, 1965. The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have...
Category: Services
For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Blackpool, Lancashire.—During the afternoon of the 25th July two men were out in a small boat attending on people...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services (from page 46) cruiser, carrying a crew of two, on passage from Christchurch to Torquay.
Her position at the time of interception was 7 nautical miles south east by south of the station on a bearing of...
Category: Services
As soon as news was received of the missing Longhope life-boat a watch was kept for survivors who might have come ashore. Here police officers are scanning the turbulent waves.. - View image in PDF
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Peel's boathouse, of 'familiar 19th century design and construction' currently houses the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat.
It will make way for a completely new building designed for the... - View image in PDF
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The King has awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to Coxswain Howard Primrose Cooper Knight, of the Ramsgat* life-boat, and Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of the Margate life-boat "for gallantry and determination when ferrying troops...
Category: Articles
Moved by Captain J. SHEPHERD, H. C. S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, and seconded by SAMUEL GREGSON, Esq., M.P., 1—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
Moved by Joror MASTERMAX, Esq., M.P., and...
Category: Meetings
THURSDAY, 4th Oct. 1883.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.Pi, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-...
Category: Committee
The longest loaf in the world: Coventry Mercia Round Table, giving effect to an idea by Tom Commander, was responsible in 1975 for a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records, and for the raising of about £4,000 for the... - View image in PDF
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