1st November, 1933, to 31st January, 1934.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive.
CROYDON.—Lantern lectures at Wood- side by Mr. F. C. Ashby and the district organizing...
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Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
Category: Services
WE wish to bring to the notice of sub- scribers to the Institution a method by which those who already give generous subscriptions can still further increase their support without any additional cost to...
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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...
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DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
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MAY 17TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing was found except wreckage. - Rewards, £2 13s..
AUGUST 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M., during an air raid, an aeroplane was seen from the boathouse to crash into the sea some three miles N. by W. of the station. The sea was smooth, with a N.W.
wind. The motor...
At 4.46 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported firing red flares five miles south of the Needles.
The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at...
Humber Lifeboat alongside Iron Duke. - View image in PDF
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BROADSTAIRS.—On the 30th July, at 4.30 A.M., during a strong N. wind and heavy sea, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched in reply to signal-guns fired from the Gull light-ship. On arriving at the Goodwin Sands, the schooner...