Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30...
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Weymouth, Dorset. — 19th January, 1939. Prolonged blowing of a siren had been heard in the direction ofthe Shambles Light-vessel, but no vessel in distress was found.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
(Right) Foreign coin has been pouring into Poole HQfrom collecting points generously set up last year by Lipton's at their 850 stores in England and Wales. (1. to r.) Numismatists John Phillimore and Colin Day with Cdr Ted Pritchard,... - View image in PDF
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King, smuggler, lifeboat hero – what do you know about your ancestors?
We’ve enlisted genealogist Laura Berry to give you seven easy ways to discover your family history
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TWO BOATS MISSING Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 4.40 a.m. on 3ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two boats, a ship's life-boat in tow of a boat powered by a small outboard motor, were missing on a voyage...
Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke, the new Chief Coastguard,. - View image in PDF
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Mr. Walter Ison (right), chairman of Bushey Council, giving advice before the walkers set off from Bushey Meads School.. - View image in PDF
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APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.
ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat mechanic reported that the motor trawler Silver Cloud, of Abersoch, was towing to Pwllheli the yacht Runag, of Glasgow, which had gone...
ABERDEEN.—The first Life-boat demon- stration in aid of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in Aberdeen was held on Thursday, the 6th July, the "Royal Wedding Day." It had been originally intended to have a " LIFE-BOAT...
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