The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours List published in June - K.B.E.
Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh C. Martell, K.B.E., C.B., who was ex-officio on the Committee of Management of the...
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To ROBEBT EsoiAND, on his retirement, after To RICHARD WmiAMS, on bis retirement, serving 25 years as Signalman, and formerly after serving ten years as Second Coxswain, 17 years as a member of the crew of the and one year as Bowman of the...
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At daybreak on the 20th December, the Austrian barque Suez was observed riding at anchor with signals of distress flying, about three miles and a half east of Newquay. The life-boat at that place was quickly launched, and found the vessel...
The brigantine Waterloo, of Cork, bound from that place to Bristol, j was stranded on the Northam Sands at I 2 A.M. on the 6th November. A fresh ! gale from W.N.W. was blowing at the ! time. The Waterloo, having no means of i making...
Shortly after midnight on the 4th-oth July, flares were observed by the Coastguard on duty at Westward Ho ! He at once communicated by telephone with Apple- dore, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was sent to the place...
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.29 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had been reported in difficulties in Newport Bay. At 2.3 the life-boat White Star was...
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow,...
Category: Services
7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...
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Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 5.15 p.m. on 8th December, 1966, it was reported that a small boat with an outboard motor had not returned from a fishing trip. Later it was confirmed that the boat was overdue. It had last been seen three miles...