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H.M. Hospital Ship Rohilla

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

Whitby, Upgang, and Scarborough, Yorkshire ; Tynemouth, Northumberland.

—These boats were all engaged in connexion with the wreck of H.M.

Hospital Ship Bohilla on the 30th October-lst November,...

Obituary

Date: June 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 310

IN addition to Mr. Hargood, whose death is recorded on the opposite page, the Committee of Management have recently lost two valued colleagues by the deaths of Sir William Priestley, a Vice-President of the Institution and Chairman of the...

Category: Obituaries

Fishing Boats

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

On the 9th of February, 1953, six of the crew of seven of the Fraserburgh life-boat lost their lives when the life- boat capsized near the harbour entrance in a heavy sea. For a full account of this disaster see page 469..

Her First Day of Service

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

The Bridlington motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, escorting in the Scarborough fishing vessel Irene on the 5th December, 1947.

On the same day she helped to refloat a Fraserburgh drifter.

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Category: Photographs

Ceres

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Appledore, Devon.—The ketch Ceres, of Bude, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of slag on the 24th November, That night, when in Croyde bay, she sprang a bad leak, and foundered. Her crew of two men were rescued.—Rewards, £19 12*. (For...

Westwind

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On 30th May, 1938, the motor life-boat Edward Z.

Dresden towed the German yacht Westwind, of Bremen, to Harwich. (A full account appears on page 538)..

Nayland and Marvonne

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Margate, Kent - On 9th July, 1969, the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched to the help of the pilot boat Nayland towing the motor fishing vessel Marvonne. A full account of this service, for which special awards were...

Johan Collett

Date: June 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 404

THIRD GOLD MEDAL AWARDED SINCE END OF WAR ON the 5th/6th February, 1963, the St. Peter Port life-boat rescued nine people from the Norwegian motor vessel JoJwn Collett. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 450, among...

Roscairbre

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

BRONZE MEDAL AWARDED On I4th July, 1964, the Howth lifeboat rescued three men from the trawler Roscairbre in a southerly gale and rough seas. For this service, an account of which appears on page 196, the award of the bronze medal was made...

The Norwegian Frigate Bergen

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

Portrush, Co. Antrim. On ist November, 1965, the Portrush life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched to search for survivors from the Norwegian frigate Bergen. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made...