DOS AMIGOS TOWED At 10.15 P-m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the French trawler Rosaline Gorgy had found the fishing boat Dos Amigos of Newlyn, previously reported missing on passage from Fishguard...
YACHT TOWED FROM DANGEROUS POSITION Selsey, Sussex. At 9.40 p.m. on Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Selsey coastguard told the honorary secretary he was not happy about a small yacht in the vicinity of Middle Ground buoy. Later the...
Ron Parris f / j and Joe Salmon at work in the rigging loft on the RNLI stand: Ron weaves together the bow pudding while Joe helps one of the many interested visitors, first explaining the best knot to use in a given situation, then how to... - View image in PDF
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Earlier this year the Louth branch of the Vintners Federation of Ireland broke all records by raising £6,100 for the Clougher Head lifeboat at its annual ball.
The money was collected through a raffle and auction,... - View image in PDF
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Fishguard's new Trent class lifeboat makes her way to sea after the ceremony with the three 'Blue Peter' presenters on the foredeck. Blue Peter VII is the first all-weather lifeboat to be funded by a 'Blue Peter' appeal... - View image in PDF
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ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE On the 28th February, 1943, the St. David’s life-boat rescued a man trapped on the cliff at Llanunwas, near Solva.
DR. JOSEPH SOAR, Mus. Doc., honorary secretary, was awarded the bronze medal.<...
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Alderman John Dickinson, J.P., who has been chairman of the Rotherham Branch of the Institution for very many years, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours, and in June was made an Honorary...
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AUG. 26TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Rockets had been seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her bearings, and towed her...
DECEMBER 21ST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 2.25 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a trawler had gone aground on the Newcome Sands, and ten minutes later the motor lifeboat Michael Stephens was...
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 21st day of April, 1853, CAPTAIN THE EARL TALBOT, R.N., C.B., VICE-PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee...
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