On the night of the 17th September a very strong gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very rough sea, rain squalls and a very high tide, and between midnight and eight o'clock the next morning there were three launches ; one by the...
DUKING 1935 Life-boat Days, through the gracious permission of the Institu- tion's President, were known as " Prince of Wales Day," in celebration of the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
There was an increase...
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Aberdeen.—At 6.37 in the morning of the 13th of January, 1949, informa- tion was received from the Pilot Station that a vessel was aground to the north of the north pier, Aberdeen Bay, but was not making signals of...
THE Institution lost last year two very distinguished members of the com- mittee of management, the Viscount Runciman and Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.B.
Lord Runciman, who died on the 14th of...
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Eastbourne, and Newhaven, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 27th of September; 1953, during thick fog, a steamer wirelessed that the motor boat Angler's Luck, with a crew of two, three miles off Beachy Head had asked her...
DURING a service in the war, on the 26th of October, 1941, the coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, and four of his crew were washed overboard. All five were picked up. The last of them was the signalman, Edward Walter...
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Selsey, Sussex.—On the evening of the 22nd April, 1939, the yacht Brionie ran aground two miles W.S.W.
of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
Dover, Kent.—On the morning of the 3rd June six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...
LADY AXN, J.P., of Derby, who died on 17th January, at the age of eighty, had been a very great friend of the life-boat service for many years. She started her work for it in 1898, in the days of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and in 1911,...
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MR. J. R. ATTERTON, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution.
Mr. Atterton, who is aged 44, first joined the Institution's staff in 1936 and worked in the Chief Inspector's depart- ment, and...
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