CARGO MIGHT SHIFT Holyhead, Anglesey. At 11.15 p.m.
on 28th November, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Havlyn intended to weigh anchor and proceed to...
Longhope, Orkneys. — Early on the morning of the 31st of January, 1957, the fishing yawl Sylvia, of Kirkwall, put out for lobster fishing. Before she was due to return a strong gale blew up, and as it was known that it would be extremely...
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
Category: Services
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a man reported that a small vessel four miles east-south-east of Walney light- house was flying a flag and appeared to be in difficulties. At three o'clock the...
Another recent death is that of Dr. E. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants., whose life-boat paintings are well known to many R.N.L.I.
supporters..
Category: Obituaries
The death took place on 30th December, 1967, of ex-Coxswain Evan J. Davies, aged 73, who joined the Aberystwyth life-boat crew in 1911 and became coxswain in 1950..
Category: Obituaries
NOVEMBER 1989: Mrs R.E. Morley, honorary secretary of Bolton Ladies' Guild from 1959 to 1970 and vice president from 1974 until her death..
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Dick Burke, chairman of Gloucester branch from 1982 to 1987 and memberof the committee until his death. He was awarded a Statuette in 1989..
Category: Obituaries
OCTOBER 1993 Ray Gentle, honorary treasurer of Westonsuper- Mare financial branch from 1979 until his death. He was awarded a Silver badge in.
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The motor life-boat Elliot Galer was launched at 11.45 A.M. on the 1st August, as the coastguard had tele- phoned that the sailing boat Nelly, of Leith, with one man on board, had capsized and sunk two miles south of Seaham, and two miles...