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Leersum

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 18th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that there was a call for medical help from the motor vessel Leersum of Amsterdam, which would be off Penlee Point at...

Lilida

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...

Services by Shore-Boats (9)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

CAPE CLEAR, Co. CORK. On 24th September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o’clock in the afternoon.

They came from the S.S. Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden steamer which was in distress through enemy...

Category: Services

£53,000 Damage.

Date: December 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 10

In three years of war the life-boat service has not gone undamaged by enemy action. Of nineteen of its life-boats which took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk in May and June, 1940, one, the Hythe boat, never returned, and...

Category: Articles

Lady Morris

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—On the evening of the 15th April one of the most exciting scenes ever remembered was witnessed at Whitby. The fishing fleet had left port early in the morning, the weather then being generally favourable.

Coxswain C. A. Johnson

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Four coxswains whose outstanding acts of gallantry were recognised by the award of medals died during the past year. Among them was the holder of an exceptional number of medals, COXSWAIN CHARLES AMBROSE (JOE) JOHNSON, who joined the crew of...

Category: Obituaries

Criccieth Life-Boat and Her Crew

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

Criccieth Life-Boat and Her Crew. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Belle Isle and Isabella

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 8.5 on the evening of the 19th November, 1961, the Walton Bay signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Belle Isle had been in collision with a barge near Chappie rock in the River Severn....

Mr John Malcolm Freswick (Jackie) Groat Mbe Jp Dl

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

August 1998 Mr John Malcolm Freswick (Jackie) Groat MBE JP DL Longhope president and exhonorary secretary. Jackie was appointed secretary in 1962 a position he was to hold for 33 years. He was awarded the the MBE in 1985, the Gold badge in...

Category: Obituaries

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: February 1921

Volume: 24

Issue: 272

DURING November and December, 1920, and January, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : — To ROBERT LEES, Esq...

Category: Awards