(Above) Wheelhouse, looking forward from steering position past wheel and compass in its binnacle to the engine room after bulkhead.
Various control switches and the revolution counters are under the coxswain's eye.... - View image in PDF
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The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
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ABERSOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE.— About 1.15 A.M. on the 27th February, signals of distress were observed from St. Tudwell's Roads. There was a whole W.S.W.
gale and very heavy sea at the time.
The Life-boat...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 24th June the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that two vessels were ashore near Cairnbulg. They were the steam drifters Whitelink Bay, of Fraserburgh, and Gamrie Bay, of Banff, which...
Holy Island, Northumberland. At five o'clock on the morning of the llth of May, 1959, the skiff Sarah Ann left harbour to fish for crabs and lobsters.
By 10.30 all the local fishing boats with the exception of...
Mrs Manby and Some of Her Scarf-Helmets. - View image in PDF
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The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded a annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
to -voluntary zvorkers at the 1998 Annual Presentation of Awards Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded three Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bars to the Gold Badge and 50 Gold Badges....
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