Mrs Marjorie Sanders, president of Walsall branch. She was secretary of the ladies' guild from 1956 to 1965 and then chairman from 1965 to 1967,1970 to 1971,1976 to 1978 and 1983 to 1984. In 1984 the guild was reformed into a branch of...
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Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 7.30 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the tug Cruiser had reported that she had the tanker British Valour, of London, in tow four miles south- south-west of Ailsa Craig,...
Japan.
THE Imperial Japanese Life-saving Institution issued in March of this year a pamphlet, written in English, giving a brief history of the Japanese Life-boat Service since the chief priest of the Kotohira Shrine in the...
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A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
November 1996 Colonel Kenneth L. C. Wright MBE TD, former chairman of the Portishead branch. Ken joined the branch in March 1976, serving as chairman until October 1976 but remained an active member of the committee until his death. He was...
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OC T . 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that he had been requested by the senior naval officer at Ramsgate to go to the Dutch steamer Mirza. A gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. As no motor...
Cadets and yachtsmen saved by Arun's Y-boat Force 5 onshore winds made life difficult for the crew of Troon's Arun City of Glasgow III when they had to launch their Y-boat twice during July to take survivors off a lee shore.
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND. — The ketch.
Hobah, of and for Falmouth, from Glasgow, laden with coal, ran ashore between Ballycormick Point and Groomspoit •whilsttrying to obtain shelter daring stormy weather on the 20th September....
Two life-boatmen of the Kirkcudbright crew serving with the navy, have been awarded the British Empire Medal. George Parkhill, son of the coxswain, serving as officer steward on one of H.M. trawlers, won it for rescuing wounded men from a...
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