Jersey: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother names Thomas James King (below) and (above) meets the 89-year-old gold medallist after whom the new St He Her boat takes her name.
Photographs by courtesy of (above) Jersey Evening... - View image in PDF
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Jan. 11.—Voted the Silver Medal to Mr.
WILLIAM PENROSE, and the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum and framed, to his brothers Messrs. THOMAS and HENRY PENROSE for their very gallant but unsuccessful attempt to...
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THURSDAY, 4th June, 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.f., Chairman of the Institution , in the Chair. ' Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward....
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OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched 42 times and rescued 16 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO SHETLAND ISLAND Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at...
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ABKLOW.—At daybreak on the 8th July, 1876, the weather being moderate, in- formation was received from the Coastguard that a barque was ashore near " Jack's- j hole," Arklow Banks. The Life-boat Oat- Pensioner was launched...
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In 1966 the value of the inshore rescue boat as a means of saving life at sea has been proved beyond all possible doubt. It was only in 1963 that these boats were first used operationally, largely as an experiment. So successful have they...
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LIEUT.-COL. CHARLES EARLE, D.S.O., O.B.E., has been appointed Personal Assistant to the Secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown.
Lieut.-Colonel Earle was born in 1913 and educated at Wellington and the...
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1st February to 30th April, 1934.
Greater London.
ACTON.—Annual meeting, the Mayoress in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing secretary. Amount col- lected in 1933 £93, the...
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above, the lifeboat in which he carried out the rescue, Charles Biggs, and her crew photographed two days after the event.. - View image in PDF
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.20 P.M. on the 5th July, 1939, the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a pile-driver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.\V. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea.
The...