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Honorary Life Governor1 One new honorary life governor, MR. B. V.

HOWELL, M.B.E., has been appointed in recognition of his services to the Institution.

At the annual general meeting of the Institution on...

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Princess Manna, Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, has presented a signed photograph of herself to Mrs. B. A. Holding, of Learning- ton, who became honorary...

Lifeboat Services (from page 46) cruiser, carrying a crew of two, on passage from Christchurch to Torquay.

Her position at the time of interception was 7 nautical miles south east by south of the station on a bearing of...

Fishing vessel aground AT 29 MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT on Thursday, August 27, 1987, Moray Coastguard overheard the fishing vessel Constant Star inform Peterhead Harbour Control that she had run aground on the Skerry Rock and required immediate...

Any information? I am researching the disaster which overtook HM Submarine Thetis in Liverpool Bay on 1 June 1939. At the time, it was the world's worst submarine loss in which 99 men perished.

If any readers have...

Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in severe gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the...

When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers

‘With the weather like it...

When the crew of a stricken cargo boat found themselves being pushed towards Cape Wrath, two lifeboat crews were called into the gale for a 13-hour rescue relay

It was around 8pm on 7 December...