Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 22nd of October, 1952, anxiety was felt for the safety of four local fishing cobles which were at sea in bad weather, and at 11.3 the life- boat E.C.J.R. was launched. The sea was rough, with a...
THE portrait on the cover of H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, is from a photograph by Mr. Cecil Beaton, of Kensington, and is reproduced by his very kind per- mission..
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 8 p.m.
on 29th August, 1966, local residents saw a yacht in difficulties in Pembroke bay.
At 8.20 the life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in a...
MB. A. C. BUTCHER has been succeeded as superintendent engineer by Com- mander (E.) R. A. Gould, O.B.E., R.N.
Commander Gould entered the Navy as a boy artificer in 1915, and saw much service in the last war. He was engin-...
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The Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, with Second Coxswain Robert Jones, took the wheel of Holyhead's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Hyman Winstone during a visit on July 18. Mrs Thatcher also met crew members and their wives and branch and... - View image in PDF
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 5.31 p.m. on 7th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht, the Chillerton Dene of Poole, had lost a rudder and was drifting off Ryde pier. At 7.5 the position had not improved and...
As it is considered that the cause of Science would be greatly benefited if the results of the Treatment in eases of Apparently Drowned Persons were col- lected for comparison and future consideration, it is requested that Answers to the...
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— Early on the morning of the 16th March a N.E.
wind increased to a moderate gale, and at about 9 A.M. a telephone message was received from the Docks stating that three fishing cobles were in difficulties off Souter Point,...
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Andrew White, of Donaghadee, Co.
Down, Northern Ireland. He has been a member of the crew since the station was established in 1910. In January, 1916, he became bowman, and in ...
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Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 7.42 in the evening on the 25th June, 1952, a R.A.F. Shackleton bomber crashed into the sea seven and a half miles north-east of Emmanuel Head, Holy Island. The life-boat J....