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Demarius

Date: August 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 197

GRIMSBY.—On the 7th January, notice having been received that the services of the Life-boat were required, the steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 left the harbour at 3.40 A.M., and proceeded to the schooner Demarius, of Goole, bound from...

Books

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

• Sailing Years, an autobiography by K. Adlard Coles (Granada Publishing, £9.95) is .fascinating reading because alongside the tales of this well-known sailor there emerges the story of the development of sailing and racing offshore. I...

Category: Articles

New Steel 70-Foot Life-Boat

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

A steel life-boat, which is the first of her kind to be built for the Institution, was completed at the yards of Messrs. Yarrow & Co. Ltd. of Scotstoun, Glasgow, in September. She is the first vessel to be built for the RNLI in steel,...

Category: Articles

Maud Smith Award

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

Second Coxswain Stephen Whittle and Assistant Mechanic John Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, share the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1964. The award is an annual one made under the...

Category: Awards

Golden Eagle

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Whltehills, Banffshlre.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the life-boat's second coxswain report- ed that he had seen a fishing vessel some three miles from Whitebills apparently out of control and drifting to the shore...

Candourity

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

STANDING BY MOTOR VESSEL IN GALE Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the master of the motor vessel Candourity of London had asked for the life-boat to stand...

Angloman

Date: August 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 185

HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...

Zeehond (1)

Date: June 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 326

Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.

—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...

Medals for Gallantry In 1946

Date: June 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 342

FOUR medals for gallantry were awarded by the Institution in 1946, two silver and two bronze. The silver medals were won by Coxswain John Murt, of Padstow, and Robert Harland, a member of the Whitby crew, and the bronze medals by Coxswain...

Category: Medals

Aquilla

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 9.56 on the evening of 22nd April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received from the Dutch steamer Deo Gloria that she had the disabled yacht Aquilla in tow with two...