During 1969 life-boats of the Royal South-Holland Association for the Saving of the Shipwrecked were called out 70 times, 30 of which resulted in 111 lives being saved. Over 50 per cent, of the services last year resulted from various...
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THEE.E will again be two life-boat calendars ready for Christmas, one for hanging and the other for the pocket or handbag, and this year the Institution will also issue a Christmas card, the first since 1941.
The hanging...
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At 11.56 a.m. on ifth March, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Northfleet with a crew of three, was firing red flares in the Wyre Channel by No. 9 buoy. She had been towing the larger motor...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—27th September, 1938. Very lights had been reported near the Hanois Lighthouse, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £9 Is..
JANUARY 7TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A fishing boat had fouled her propeller and been wrecked, but her crew were rescued by another fishing boat.- Rewards, £11 4s. 6d..
JUNE 12TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. An American aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but she was completely wrecked and the pilot killed. - Rewards, £9.
INJURED SEAMEN TAKEN OFF AN injured seaman aboard the container ship Manchester Merit led to the Appledore, Devon, life-boat being called to her at 6.51 p.m. on 9th January. At that time she was 40 miles south west of the Smalls...
When the honorary secretary of the Pinner branch, Mrs. Carver, visited the Pinnerwood Primary School to empty the collecting box she was greeted withlife-boat song composed by Susan Tublin aged ten, who had trained the choir composed of...
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BARMOUTH, NOETH WALES.—At noon on the 27th November The Jones Oibb Life-boat was launched, Captain LA PEIMAUDAYE, E.N., District Inspector of Lifeboats, who was at the station on a visit of inspection, going out in her, to the assistance of...