With great regret we record the death of two Life Vice Presidents of the Institution and a noted Honorary Life Governor.
Surgeon Captain F.W.
Baskerville was elected to the Committee of Management in 1964...
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SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave...
Ditched aircraft AT 2225 on April 22, 1987 the station honorary secretary at Wick was alerted by Pentland Coastguard that a Buccaneer aircraft had ditched in the sea more than 21 miles north east by east of Wick.
The 48ft...
MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES RNLI for over 25 years to the INSHORE LIFEBOATS £ W As a result of an appeal to raise funds by the Lawnflite garden machinery division of E.P.BARRUS Ltd.
A new 'D...
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JULY 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 4.40 in the morning, a message was received from the coastguard that it was thought that a Lancaster aeroplane was down in the sea about six miles from Anderby Creek. A light...
JANUARY 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND CROMER, NORFOLK.
News was received at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that an open boat containing sixteen survivors from the Latvian steamer Taut Mila, which had been damaged...
DECEMBER 25TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At 11.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a boat could be seen drifting about 3 miles N.E. of the coastguard station. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a...
MAY 20TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At one in the afternoon the naval authorities enquired about a small boat which had left harbour the previous evening but had not returned. An hour later the life-boat coxswain saw a small sailing boat off the...
At the last annual meeting of the Com- mittee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES, chief clerk of the House of Lords, the honorary secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.E.G.S., reported that during the past year...
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The Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award 2010 will be presented to Jamie Rowlands and Andy Waterfield of Polzeath Beach, Cornwall, for rescuing two surfers on 29 October.
In a demonstration of seamanship worthy of an...
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