About eight o'clock on the evening of 8th December, 1962, the trawler Boston Heron ran aground at Stilamair, an uninhabited island south-west of Scalpay in the Little Minch. A south- south-westerly gale was blowing, gusting to force 9,...
Category: Services
Galway Bay. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1961, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take him to Inishmaan to attend a very sick child. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Thursday, 10th February, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Anonymous .... 500 0 0...
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Keeping it in the family! Stephen Simmons, new recruit of Sheringham lifeboat crew, not only has all the skills required to be a lifeboatman but also has lifesaving in his blood - he joins his father, the helmsman of the lifeboat, and elder...
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FlSHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. On the 22nd March, at about 7.30 A.M., a signal of distress was shown from a vessel at anchor in the bay, where she had been riding with others during the night. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., at...
THE DRAW for the Shoreline Renault 5 car competition was made on October 28 by Dave Lee Travis on the Renault Car Stand at Earl's Court Motor Fair.
The lucky winner was Mr F. J. Hade of Wokingham and by now he should...
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FOR years past the Montrose life-boat crews, by their readiness at all times to proceed to sea to the rescue of the wrecked, and the success which has at all times attended their labours, have earned for Montrose the reputation of being, so...
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Laurie Prynn, who had been a member of Salcombe lifeboat crew for some 16 years, regularly, from 1961 to 1978, gave about ten lectures a year to cadet members of the Island Cruising Club; in all he must have talked to some 7,000 youngsters...
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The following Coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension....
Category: Awards
JUNE 3RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A small boy had fallen over the cliff, but was rescued by a rowing boat. - Rewards, £4 16s. 6d..