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Long service Early last year members of Bognor Rotary Club presented an inscribed chair for Selsey lifeboat station's crew room. It was in memory of the late Mr R. D. Bray, a Rotarian who had been associated with Bognor Regis RNLI branch...
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Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.49 on the morning of the 5th of February, 1961, the harbour master at Irvine informed the coxswain that two men were stranded on a beacon at the entrance to Irvine harbour. In the absence of the honorary secretary the...
Another Balloon Race
ANOTHER life-boat balloon race has been held, this time by the St. Albans and Harpenden branch, in connexion with its life-boat day, last September.
Altogether 800 balloons were sent up.
Each had a label...
Category: Branches
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 8th May last at Willis's Rooms, His Grace the DDKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair. The noble President, with great clearness, in an excellent...
Category: Meetings
A Speed Boat
RESCUED FROM SPEEDBOAT Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.15 p.m.
on i6th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small and overloaded speedboat was in difficulties about three-quarters of a mile east by...
Kengis
Workington, Cumberland.—On the 1st of June, 1955, the motor vessel Kengis, of Stockholm, which had anchored off the entrance to the harbour, wirelessed for a doctor to attend a sick man.
At 2.15 in the afternoon the...
A Rowing Boat (2)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of Septem- ber, 1958, the coastguard at Rhyl informed the coxswain that two men in a rowing boat were in difficulties one mile north of the pier. At 4.50 the life- boat...
Castle Cove
MFV sinks BLYTH LIFEBOAT station motor mechanic, John Scott, called up Tynemouth Coastguard at 1825 on Tuesday December 7, 1982, to tell them that the lifeboat would be sailing for a rough weather exercise. He was informed that the fishing...
Unsung heroes: Vincent Rafter
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his involvement with the RNLI goes back even further
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his...
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Rival
HASBOROUGH.— The ketch Rival, of London, bound there from Newcastle with fire-bricks, went ashore at Ostend, about a mile and a quarter N. of the Hasborough Life-boat Station, during a strong E.N.E.
wind and a thick fog on...