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Birthday Honours

Date: July 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 432

Three serving coxswains and a retired coxswain of the R.N.L.I. were honoured with the B.E.M. in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. They were Coxswain Edward C. Larbalestier, of St. Helier, Channel Islands, Coxswain Robert Lee, Douglas,...

Category: Awards

Michel Swenden and Adrian Letzer

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Clac- ton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard reported that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station that the motor...

A Boston Aeroplane's Dinghy

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

JUNE 27TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 12.7.P.M. the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Chapel, and the motor lifeboat Anne Allen was launched at 12.37 P.M.

A light N.E...

Thetis

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

LONDON BARGE ADRIFT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1947, the motor life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 put out in a strong west-south-west gale, with a very rough sea, to search for a missing...

Award for Bravest Life-Saving Act In 1956

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1956 has been won by Reginald Carey, of Coverack, Cornwall.

Reginald Carey, who is normally second coxswain of the Coverack lifeboat, was acting coxswain when the...

Category: Awards

Girl Nan, Galilee,Success, Provider A,Venus and Pilot Me.

Date: April 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 360

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1951, a strong north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea was rough. At 11.30 fishermen reported that the harbour entrance was dangerous. Six local fishing vessels were known to be...

Plaque to Bridlington Bowman

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

A PLAQUE in memory of Robert Redhead, a former bowman of the Bridlington life-boat, has been placed in the boathouse. Robert Redhead lost his life when the Bridlington life-boat capsized off Flamborough on the 19th of August, 1952. The...

Category: Articles

A Mysterious Gift

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

ON the balustrade in front of the headquarters of the Institution stands a half model of a life-boat which is also a collecting-box. When the box was opened on the morning of the 18th of April 84 farthings were found in it.

Category: Donations

Daisy

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

The Life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 A.M., and at 7 P.M. was again towed out by the steamer and rescued the crow of four men from the smack Daisy, of Ramsgate, which, in trying to enter the harbour at low water, took the ground and...

Little Teal

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

BERWICK-ON-TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND.

—A small sailing yacht, the Little Teal, of Berwick, was observed during the afternoon on the 1st April try ing to keep in shore, but the westerly wind was too heavy for her to carry any...