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Aubrey Diggle, Pictured Left, Receiving a Letter of Appreciation from Peter Nicolson, Chairman of the RNLI, for Saving Two Surfers
Aubrey Diggle, pictured left, receiving a letter of appreciation from Peter Nicolson, Chairman of the RNLI, for saving two surfers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Coxswain's Memories of His First Service
Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...
Category: Services
A Dinghy (3)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.37 p.m.
on 29th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had fired a red flare about one mile east of Skegness pier. The life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 2 o'clock...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
IT is intended in this and each future number of the Life-boat Journal to give our readers a short account of two or more of the stations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
These sketches—for they will be of that...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (1)
17th November. A steamer had lost her propeller, but she was taken in tow by a trawler.—Rewards, £18 14s..
A Fishing Boat (3)
21st Feb- ruary. A fishing boat was disabled but was taken in tow by a trawler.— 'Rewards, £5 14s..
True Friend
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 17th February information was received that a steam drifter was aground on the Doom Bar, and as soon as it was seen that she had not refloated on the flood-tide the Life-boat Arab was dispatched to...
A French Military Seaplane
APRIL 6TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. A French military seaplane had been forced down in the sea, but she was helped by a French fishing boat. Letters of thanks were received from the French Navy and the French Consul-General.-Rewards, £9...
A Vessel (3)
DECEMBER 3RD. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A vessel had been reported sunk in collision, but a search in the darkness was without result. Picking up a wireless message that some survivors had been rescued the life-boat...
Presentation to the Montrose Life-Boatmen (From the Dundee Advertiser, 21st April, 1884)
FOR years past the Montrose life-boat crews, by their readiness at all times to proceed to sea to the rescue of the wrecked, and the success which has at all times attended their labours, have earned for Montrose the reputation of being, so...
Category: Articles