AMONG THE AWARDS announced in the Birthday Honours list were: Knight Batchelor: Charles Keith Frossard, Bailiff of Guernsey. Sir Charles is a vice-president of Guernsey branch.
KCVO: John Michael Moore, CB DSC.
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was in distress half a mile east of St. Govan's Head. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber...
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Crew braves WWII defences to rescue grounded yacht
NORTH DEAL, WALMEH, AND RAMS- GATE, KENT.—The Life-boats Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 4, and Charles and Susanna Stephens were launched a few minutes after midnight on the 4th- 5th April, in answer to signals of distress, the steamer...
LOWESTOFT.—At about 1.30 P.M. on the 3rd of March, the brigantine Caroline, of Faversham, bound from London for the Tyne, with a cargo of burnt ore, and carrying a crew of seven men, was seen to part from her cable in the roadstead, and in...
Port Erin, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1951, the Director of the Marine Bio- logical Station sent a message to the Port Erin life-boat authorities. Two life-boatmen had reported that the Station's...
Whilst the crew of the Life-boat J. C. Madge were assembling for an exercise launch on the 6th January, several vessels were seen running for shelter, as a strong westerly gale with heavy squalls was blowing. One of them, which proved to be...
PORTHDINLLAEN. — A schooner was observed in distress, having lost all her sails, about two or three miles N.W. of Porthdinllaen Head, during a very heavy gale from N.N.W. on the morning of the 20th May. The Life-boat George Moore put off at...