OCTOBER 5TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE, AND DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed several miles inland. One of the crew was killed, but the other had baled out. He was carried to the coast and came down in...
OCTOBER 6TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A vessel had been reported in distress off the south-west corner of the Island of Skye, but nothing could be found, and after spending the night at Carbost, the life-boat, which was in...
The King has awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea to John Robert Harland, of the Whitby life-boat crew, for diving overboard to the rescue of a fisherman in a heavy sea. As announced in the last issue, the Institution...
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Baltimore’s Tyne class lifeboat Hilda Jarrett was called into action on 18 March, when a fire broke out on Cape Clear Island. Fire crews from Skibbereen were needed on the island, home to around 100 people, and in an emergency the best way...
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4 September 2012: An unfortunate dog, which had fallen to the bottom of cliffs at Salton Bay, was rescued by St Bees inshore lifeboat. Crew Member Dale Rockery swam ashore to retrieve the frightened pet from a...
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AUGUST 21ST. - ABERYSTWYTH , CARDIGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. While the life-boat was searching, another aeroplane was reported in the sea, and a third in distress, and a motor boat was...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—On the 15th of August, 1949, an officer of the Irish Army and a priest, who were on holiday, went out from Drogheda in a motor boat. About four in the after- noon the engine broke down, the boat anchored, and the...
he Florence Life-boat of this station proceeded through heavy squalls to the assistance of the schooner Aden, ...
COMMANDER E. D. DRURY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., the chief inspector of life-boats, will retire, under the age limit, on 31st December, 1938, and will be succeeded as chief inspector b)' Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the...
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PEOPLE sometimes complain of flag days. Collectors, perhaps, sometimes feel a little weary of them, but to those who come fresh to them they are evidently a delight. An organising secretary of the Institution recently wrote of a flag day:...
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