A remarkable demonstration of service has come to the notice of the R.N.L.I, at Douglas, Isle of Man. The devoted helper, who was physically handicapped, was 15-year old David Kelly who died in November.
It is understood...
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BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
Hush money: during one Monday in July Lang/on County Primary School, Ma/ton, North Yorkshire, must have been the quietest school in the country. A sponsored silence was held, with junior pupils being quiet for an hour while the infants kept... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 9TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a trawler was ashore half a mile north of Bamburgh Castle, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a motor fishing vessel was on the rocks at Divas Head. The life-saving ap- paratus team and a helicopter had been summoned, and at...
Arbroath, Angus. At six o'clock on the evening of the 9th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore half a mile east of Arbroath. The life-boat The Duke of Montrose was launched at 6.11 in...
Peel, Isle of Man. At 2.3 on the morning of the 6th of March, 1959, Portpatrick radio informed the honor- ary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Prevalent of Brixham, with a crew of three, had broken down two to three miles...
PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. On the 7th July the George Moore Life-boat went out in reply to signals of distress, during a "W.N.W. wind and rough sea,and remained by the schooner Weaver, of Carnarvon, until she was out of danger, she...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 7.29 p.m. on 5th September, 1965, the acting honorary secretary was told by the police that a yacht had capsized in the Conway estuary. At 7.40 the IRB launched in a moderate to fresh north-westerly breeze and...
Expenditure.
Life-boats:— £ s. d.
New Life-boats for the following stations:—On account— Aberdeen, Appledore, Arklow, Barmouth, Barry Dock, Bembridge, Cadgwith, Caister, Cloughey, Dun Laoghaire,...
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