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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Coxswain'* Certificate of Service.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, PENSION, and a SPECIAL GRATUITY of £80, have been awarded to: JOHN- STRACHAN, 15 years coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat.

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Category: Awards

Past and Present

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

/n the 7 74 /ears of the RNLI's existence, only 1 19 gold medals for gallantry have been awarded. That in itself is a measure of how jealously the Institution guards the honour, reserving it for acts of bravery in circumstances beyond...

Category: Articles

Loch Wasdale

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD DECEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.50 in the morning the coastguard reported to the motor-mechanic of the life-boat signals of distress from a vessel in the direction of Buchan Ness. The...

The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...

The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal (1)

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...

A Silver Medal Service By the Newburgh Life-Boat

Date: December 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 280

A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...

Category: Medals

Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats

Date: November 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 277

DURING the summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held at the Lizard, Appledore, Peterhead, Brixham, Eastbourne and Bembridge. Of these, the Lizard boat went to her station in 1920, the Peter- head and Eastbourne...

Category: Inaugurations

Life-Boat Services In 1903

Date: May 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 212

Lives saved.

Fayaway, smack of Ramsey .. 2 Fenham, s.S., of Sunderland— assisted to save vessel.

Fingal, four-masted barque, of Dublin 32 Fishing Boats at Cullercoats, Filey, Gourdon, ...

Category: Services

Some Special Gifts

Date: June 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 306

In Gratitude.

ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea, when the...

Category: Donations

Obituary

Date: November 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 277

BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...

Category: Obituaries