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-...
Category: Committee
Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 12.30 p.m. on igth June, 1967, a message was received that the motor fishing vessel Chalon, which had left Campbeltown on the 18th to attend to her lobster pots at Arran, had broken down on the return journey...
SURGEON AND ANESTHETIST TAKEN TO ISLAND Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd July, 1962, a request was received from the Kilmarnock infirmary for the life-boat to take a surgeon and an anaesthetist to a hospital in Lamlash,...
TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, AND TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS OR OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31st DECEMBER, 1863.
Jan. 1.—The Braunton (North Devon) life-boat put off and rescued, during a gale...
Category: Articles
At the funeral service held in Cromer Parish Church on the 17th of June more than 1,400 people crowded into the church, and many hundreds more stood on the pavements outside. The life-boat coxswains of Sheringham, Wells, Caister and...
Category: Obituaries
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South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...
Category: Services
BY the death of Her Majesty Queen Mary on the 24th of March, 1953, the Life-boat Service lost one of its three Royal Patrons. Queen Mary was the third of the five queens—Queen Vic- toria, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth (now the...
Category: Obituaries
APRIL 17TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
Early in the morning a crash was heard by the coastguard, but the weather was foggy and he could see nothing. He made enquiries but learnt nothing. At 9.33 the life-boat honorary secretary...
SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat the Institution has lost a number of friends and workers : Sir Charles Macara, Bt., J.P., Chairman of the St. Anne's-onthe- Sea Branch, and founder of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund ; the Lady...
Category: Obituaries