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Winning Journalist

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

Mr. Michael Tosh has become the first man to receive the Institution's award for the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat. His report appeared in the Dundee Courier and Advertiser on nth November, 1964. In it he...

Category: Awards

Gadfly

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties in Dur- leston Bay, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby, was launched in a strong south-west...

Callum Cille

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of February, 1954, the Kilchomaii coastguard re- ported that the fishing boat Callum Cille, of Oban, which had a crew of three, had run on a reef off the north shore of Loch Tarbert...

Empire Scout

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

JANUARY 8TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.

At 10.40 in the morning the port war signal station at Teesmouth reported two vessels in distress off the port. The Teesmouth lifeboat crew were assembled and...

A New Life-Boat Film

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

A NEW life-boat film called Gale Warnings, with a spoken commentary, is now in use, and the Institution's branches can ask for it at any time for showing in cinemas, at meetings, or privately.

The film is designed to...

Category: Articles

Solent Swan and Oriana

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 7.10 in the morning of the 9th of .January, 1952, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles south-south-west of Smalls, but that a steamer was standing by her.

Then...

Brigg South Humberside

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Brigg, South Humberside, ladies' guild ran a stall at the town's annual charity market on July 18, raising £135. The guild also won the runner-up prize for the best dressed stall holders—and the chairman and honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Inland Revenue

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

Daventry and District branch members and friends raised a total of £2,245 at this year's annual Braunstone Boat Show held on the Grand Union Canal at Braunstone, Daventry over the Spring bank holiday weekend. The three day event is... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Sunray

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

Hartlepool, Durham.—At 6.40 on the night of the 1st of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vesselwas burning rags two miles north-by- east of Heugh Light. A strong south- erly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 7.20...

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Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 9.15 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing light giving SOS signals had been seen coming from Skomer Island. At 9.45 the life-boat...