Southport branch held a 1940s night at a local pub in March which proved to be a great success - raising £350 for lifeboat coffers.. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 18TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Fishing boats were making for harbour in bad weather, but got in without help.-Rewards, £6 13s..
MARCH 29TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
The life-boat rescued five men from the S.S. Flimston. For details see Hartlepool and Teesmouth, March 9th..
During a long and tiring search for some missing divers in the Channel on 17 August, Selsey and Newhaven lifeboat crews were replenished with breakfast and a roast dinner.. - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 10.58 on the morning of the 24th of March, 1960, Lloyd's agent at Great Yarmouth informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Dutch tanker Mare Novum, which was...
When an R.A.F. Gnat trainer crashed into the sea—the two pilots ejected from the aircraft before it crashed—on 8th June, 1968, the Holyhead life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was quick off the mark. Group Captain W....
Category: Correspondence
Among places overseas from which the Institution has had gifts recently, are King Williams Town (South Africa), Northern Rhodesia, Kenya, New Zealand, Basutoland, Melbourne, Texas, Guatemala, New York and Buenos Aires..
Category: Articles
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 1st August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a...
DEER RESCUED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 7.59 a.m. on Tuesday, the 25th May, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a deer which was being chased by them had jumped from the pier and was swimming strongly to the north-east...
COXSWAIN Richard Evans of Moelfre, Mr. Kenneth Derham of Christchurch, Hampshire, Coxswain Daniel Kirk- patrick of Longhope, Motor Mechanic Evan Owens of Moelfre, Coxswain Harry Thomas of Torbay and Cox- swain Albert Watson of Cromarty ! ...
Category: Awards