Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 11.5 on the night of the 4th of May, 1950, the coastguard reported that a flashing light, believed to be a S.O.S. signal, had been seen between four and five miles north-west of the coastguard station.<...
Brian King, a member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, with three non-working models he has made, two for the RNLI and one for himself, of Margate's new 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38). Built mainly of... - View image in PDF
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Lives saved.
Aberystwith, two small fishing boatsot 2 Adela, fishing boat, of Llan- dudno— saved boat and 2 Aeron Belle, schooner, of Aber- ystwith 3 Agamemnon, s.s., of Liverpool stood by vessel.
Agnes...
Category: Services
The N.N.E. gale of the 12th January blew with unusual violence at Fishguard, and at 6.30 A.M. signals of distress were made by the s.s. Dynamo, of Hull, in the bay. The Life-boat Charterhouse was launched, but she was delayed for some little...
MR. KENNETH SMITH, a member of the Tynemouth life-boat crew, has been awarded the Morley Medal of the Outward Bound Trust. This medal is given not more than once annually to someone who has taken a course at one of the Outward Bound schools...
Category: Awards
Crowd puller: Vivian May, (centre) a member of the RNLl's fund raising committee, was invited with his wife Susanna (r) to Lord Montague of Beaulieu's (I) 60th birthday fancy dress ball. Mr May, ever mindful of his duty to promote... - View image in PDF
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With deep regret we record the following deaths: FEBRUARY 1993 Geoffrey Flint, chairman of Weston-super- Mare station branch from 1976 to 1992 and chairman of the financial branch from 1971 to 1986. He was assistant treasurer for the station...
Category: Obituaries
WHILE the King was afloat in April last j off the Scilly Islands with Mr. Dorrien- ! Smith, the President of the Scilly Isles Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, in the latter's steam- launch, Mr. Dorrien-Smith was...
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THE following verses were written by Beryl James, of Liskeard, Cornwall, after seeing a Life-boat film. She was fifteen years old at the time, and was one of the prize-winners in the Life-boat Essay Competition last...
Category: Poetry
Aith, Shetland*.—At' 10 o'clock on the night of the 27th of January, 1949, a member of the crew of the motor fishing vessel Ivy Lea, of Lerwick, which had put out the previous morn- ing, telephoned that the Ivy Lea had broken down,...