On the 5th of November, 1957, the New Brighton life-boat rescued the crew of six of the coaster J. B. Kee. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain George Stonall was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry, see page...
Aberdeen.—At 7.41 on the evening of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that there was a very sick man on board the coaster Amos, of Copenhagen. Her position was then 75 miles south-east of Aberdeen. The...
ings to the RNLI, his Christmas cards proving particularly popular (350,000 mantelpieces must have been the brighter for them last Christmas); Alan Jones, Secretary and Exhibition Organiser of National Boat Shows, who has consistently given...
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Driven ashore THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Stornoway lifeboat station received a message from HM Coastguard at 0540 on Sunday, August 28, saying that a small foreign vessel, Vieux Copains, had gone aground at Battery Point at Stornoway Bay, one...
During a water safety demonstration at Port Isaac, Cornwall, the local IRB and the Padstow life-boat, with other organisations, combined to show what happens when, for example, a sailing dinghy is upset. Here the Port Isaac IRB is making for... - View image in PDF
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Valentia, Co. Kerry - On 20th February, 1970, the life-boat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings to go to the help of the M.V. Oranmore.
A full account of this service will appear in the next number of THE...
CLIFF RESCUE Life-boats are often called to rescue people trapped in difficult situations, and on 28th February, 1971, an anticipatory message was received at 3.9 p.m. from the Coastguard reporting that a cliff climber was in difficulties at...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor launch Vim, which had left the Tees at 3 p.m. to take stores to the tankerPrimbro anchored in Tees bay, had neither...
Major General Sir Robert Pigot, Bart, CBE, QBE, DL, RM, a vice-president of the RNLI. Sir Robert became president of the Isle of Wight lifeboat board in 1975 and in the same year was elected on to the committee of management. In recognition...
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Guests of honour: several lifeboatmen were among the guests at a special Variety Club of Great Britain lunch at London's Hilton Hotel in December, to honour HRH The Duke of Kent, the heroes of the lifeboat service and leading members of... - View image in PDF
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