ME. PHILLIP COLVILLE M.B.E., Mr. E.
M. Cooper-Key, M.P., Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood and Commander A. J. O'Brien Twohig, have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institu-...
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Aitb, Shetlands.—On the evening of the 6th of March, 1947, a doctor at Walls telephoned that he had a patient, a young woman, with acute appendi- citis. Owing to snowdrifts the only open road was from Scalloway to Ler- wick, but there was ho...
TOW FOR YACHT EN FOG The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall. At 2.36 on the morning of the 15th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was stationary about one mile east of the life-boat station. She had no engine and...
Four of the new 48ft. lifeboats for the R.N.L.I. are being built by Camper & Nicholsons Ltd The R.N.L.I. must have the best.
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Walmer, Kent. At 1.42 early on the morning of the 1st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen four to five miles south-east of the look-out.
At two o'clock the...
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of December.
1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a sick man from the Inishtearaght Rock lighthouse, as the weather was too bad...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.27 A.M. on the 16th September, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that the Brake Light-vessel had reported that the barge Oceanic, which was near her, had a man on board dangerously ill, and that the skipper wanted to get...
Two saved from yacht in onshore severe galeAservice by Shoreham's Tyne class lifeboat in June 1999 has earned her coxswain Peter Huxtable the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum.
The service was carried out in...
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 11.30 on the night of the 18th of April, 1958, the agent for the steam trawler Buzzard, of Fleetwood, asked the honorary sec- retary if the life-boat would land a man from the trawler, who was seriously...
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cargo ship was on fire five miles off St. Anne's Head.
The weather was foggy with a...