Mrs B. Yager, president of Scunthorpe ladies guild. Mrs Yager supported the RNLI for many years prior to be made president of the guild in 1975. She was awarded the silver badge in 1997..
Category: Obituaries
MARCH 18TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
A canoe had capsized, but the two persons on board were drowned before the lifeboat could reach them. - Rewards, £19 11s..
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 8.5 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man who had fallen down the cliff at Ramsey Island was injured, and that the services of the life- boat...
LAST December the Institution received from the Honorary Secretary of its Branch at Warminster, Wiltshire, a cheque for £16 as a legacy from the late Hugo Harbord Terchman. She wrote : " He was a young man just going to Oxford, who...
Category: Donations
DR. E. A. PASK, O.B.E., has been coopted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. Dr. Pask, who was educated at Rydal School and Cambridge and studied at the London Hospital, is now Professor of Anaesthetics in the University of...
Category: Committee
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...
THE annual match for the " Baring Cup" was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 2nd April, on a ground kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co.
Ltd., at Charlton, Kent. The...
Category: Articles
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At half past four in the afternoon on the 20th of February, 1950, pilots reported that distress flares had been seen close to The Hook, Co. Wexford. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Annie Blanche...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a ship seemed to be in difficulties off Swanpool beach in Falmouth Bay, and at 9.0 the life-boat Crawford and Constance...
Aith, Shetlands. At 9.26 on the morn- ing of the 21st September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a fishing vessel had broken down near the island of Papa Stour.
At 9.58 the life-boat John and...