From left: Crew Member Andrew Helmsman Gary Stanbury Crew Member Martin Davis Reproduced courtesy of the North Devon journal. - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 24TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £21 7s. 6d.
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
Patroness — HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Vice Patron— -His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
President — His GRACE THE DUKE OF...
Category: Advertisement
THE hundred and fifteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 26th April. Over 2,500 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Meetings
THURSDAY, 1st January, 1880: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 16th January, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station, Father Joseph McNamara, was told by the Galway harbour master that the coaster June of Rotterdam was aground on the reefs off...
Category: Services
New Brighton, Cheshire.—During the evening of the llth November the owner of the local motor fishing boat lone reported that his boat had gone out early in the morning in company with several other boats, but had not returned with them. She...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, seven motor fishing boats left harbour on the ebb tide. The very heavy seas of the previous few days had moderated.
When the tide began to flow the sea got up again...
THE following essay was adjudged the best in a competition organised by the Institution and open to boys and girls up to the age of eleven in Great Britain and Ireland. It was written by Winefride Claire Davies, of the Old Colwyn County...
Category: Articles
Mechanical failures Arran (Lamlash) lifeboat crew were mustered on the evening of Sunday July 22, 1984, after Clyde Coastguard had been told that a speedboat was seen to be drifting towards the main channel between Hamilton Rock and...