MR. R. H. MAHONY, of Ballycotton, CAPTAIN G. B. PIGGOTT, of Barmouth, and MR. S. VALENTINE, of Girvan, have all been accorded the highest distinction which the Royal National Life-boat Institution can confer on an honorary worker. This is...
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Primula of Peterhead was ashore in Burnhaven Bay. At 3.15 the life-boat Julia Park Barry...
JULY 13TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea half a mile east of Buchanness, and the motor life-boat .Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5.5 P.M...
WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...
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On 17 September, the trawler Dorothy May ran out of fuel, having been using it at a faster rate than usual.
A further fault meant that her battery hadn’t charged and she lost electrical power, rendering her radio useless....
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Concerted efforts Worcester guild has a particular talent for turning musical notes into pound notes. In May 1984 a concert given by Scottish baritone, Peter Morrison, in conjunction with the Hereford Police Choir, raised £362.25, while...
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June Launches 67. Lives rescued 178.
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. The life-boat helped in bringing wounded men ashore from a vessel.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...
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Coxswains all: Left to right, aboard the Watson cabin motor lifeboat Civil Service No. 5, Hugh Nelson, coxswain from 1949 to 1954, Andrew White, coxswain from 1917 to 1949, and Alexander Nelson, coxswain from 1954 to 1960. The photograph was... - View image in PDF
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Flowers all the way . . . a well dressing at the village of Dore (right), and (below) a model lifeboat 'floats'' on a rough, breaking sea of grey and white plants at Brentwood.. - View image in PDF
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