BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
Fox. Vellum service certificates have been presented to Crew Members Christopher E. Fox and David Wainwright.
Western Division On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the...
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Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port was awarded the gold medal for the service to Bonita on December 13, 1981: he first joined St Peter Port lifeboat crew in 1975, becoming second coxswain in 1980 and coxswain in 1981 (photograph by... - View image in PDF
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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...
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The Institution has received a gift of £25 from the ship's fund of the auxiliary cruiser "H.M.S. Jervis Bay," which was sunk in November, 1940, when very gallantly defending a convoy of British ships from a powerful German...
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Coxswain Robert Cross, G.M., who has been in command nf the lifeboat station at The Humber for 3i years, has retired at the age of 67.
These last tour years have been the busiest, as well as the most dangerous, in his long...
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FEBRUARY 26TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At ten o’clock in the morning the coastguard reported H.M. barge Celtic in difficulties, with a. damaged rudder, about two miles northeast of Berwick High Lighthouse. An eastnorth- east...
Newcastle, Co. Down. — At 9.15 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was drifting off Cranfield. Shortly afterwards they reported her in distress, and at 9.50 the life-boat L.P. and St.
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At 11 A.M. on the 12th April the Coastguard reported that a schooner in the Margate Roads was flying distress signals. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was at once summoned and the boat launched.
When she was...
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A trip to the London International Boat Show 7th - 17th January 1999, is even better if you make a Stakis Hotel your first port of call.
The friendly welcome continues right through...
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