— On the night of the 7th April the life-boat coxswain brought from St. Martin's, in his own boat, a girl who was suffering from appendicitis, and her doctor.
It was then decided that the girl must be sent to the...
JANUARY 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received from the flag officer, Humber, through the coastguard, that there had been an explosion on a landing craft four and a half miles east of...
The RNLI’s Annual Presentation of Awards was held in London’s Barbican Centre on 22 May with guest of honour HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. She presented the RNLI’s Silver Medal for Gallantry to Torbay Coxswain Mark Criddle for his part in...
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THE Institution is issuing to living holders of its gold, silver and bronze medals, miniature reproductions of their medals. These miniatures will be half the size of the originals. They will have on them the reverse of j the originals,...
Category: Medals
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service before the public every day of the year, and we hope that...
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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL B. D. H. Clark, M.C., G.M., has been appointed organiz- ing secretary for Ireland. He has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Ross, R.M. (Retd.) who has held this post since the beginning of...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 16th April, 1938, the local motor boat Sirius put out from Forth Clais with seventeen people on board, for a trip to Grasholme. They did not return when expected, and anxiety was felt for...
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 9.43 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported a small vessel in distress. Twelve minutes later the life-boat The Princess Royal—- Civil Service No. 7, was launched. A moderate gale was...
(Below) George Dyer, bronze medallist, former coxswain of Torbay lifeboat, now retired.. - View image in PDF
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Stornoway, Hebrides. At 7.40 on the evening of the 1st of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Russian trawler was due to arrive off Stornoway about one o'clock in the morning with a sick woman on board who...