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Maid Marion

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.18 p.m. on 6th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with four men on board was overdue. At 9.45 the life-boat Edian Courtauld proceeded to search for the fishing...

Wittezee

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

NOVEMBER 12TH. - THE MUMBLES GLAMORGANSHIRE. The Dutch motor vessel Wittezee, of Rotterdarn, stranded below Port Eynon Point. The life-boat went out at 9 A.M., three-quarters of an hour after she had returned from the service of the day...

Success

Date: June 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 384

Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 7th of March, 1958, the local motor fishing vessel Success was at the fishing grounds. During the day the weather became very bad, and at 2.25 in the afternoon the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...

Peter Varkevisser

Date: August 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 177

ABERSOCH.—Signals ot distress were seen in the vicinity of St. Tudwall's Sound and rockets were fired from St.

Tudwall's Lighthouse on the morning of the 13th January. The Life-boatOldham was launched at 6...

Guloy

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

LIFE-BOATMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.35 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1948, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that white flares had been seen off C.2 Red Buoy. The life-boat's crew went out in the...

Mr. Barrie Bennetts

Date: March 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 387

Mr. Barrie Bennetts, who had received the highest award the Institution can make to a voluntary worker, that of appointment as honorary life governor, died on the 26th of July, 1958, at the age of 75. He had been honorary secretary of the...

Category: Obituaries

Birthday Honours

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were be- stowed in the Birthday Honours list were: G.B.E. Alderman C. J. Harman, Lord Mayor of the City of London, ex officio member of the Committee of Man-...

Category: Awards

Calva

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

St. Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of August, 1948, a message was received from the har- bour office that a sailing boat appeared to be in difficulties six miles off Gorey, and at 5.15 the motor life-boat Howard D. put...

Grave Omission:

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

Grave omission: when he died in 1904 Henry Freeman, coxswain of Whitby lifeboat who had helped save over 300 lives was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. Four boys from Whitby School considered it was high lime the town honoured one... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: August 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 89

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