On the 6th August the motor vessel Capable, of London, ran aground in Bigbury Bay in a dense fog, while bound to London with a cargo of stone.
She carried a crew of eight. The Master sent a man ashore, and the news was sent...
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Following the reduction in the rate of income tax announced in the Budget, the value of a gift under a deed of covenant is now increased by approximately 63% (instead of 70%). The following table shows the effect of the income tax rates for...
Category: Donations
Invited to the 80th general conference of the Norwegian Life-boat Society was Mr. Frank Garriock, Norwegian Consul in Lerwick. The Norwegian Society has 33 boat stations—32 in Norway and one at Lerwick, Shetland....
Category: Meetings
The R.N.L.I, received recognition in the New Year Honours.
O.B.E.
Lt. - Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., Chief Inspector of Life-boats. Deputy to the then Chief Inspector from 1958 to 1961, when he...
Category: Awards
Margate, Kent - At 6.36 p.m. on 16th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the coswain that a small boat with two men on board was in difficulties one and a half miles off the coastguard lookout at Foreness.
In view of...
THE third of the services carried out on the 27th of October, 1959, for which medals for gallantry were awarded took place near Fraserburgh harbour. In the temporary absence of Captain R. T.
Duthie the assistant harbour...
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DECKS WERE AWASH At 4.47 p.m. on 24th September, 1964, a report was received via Cromer radio that a small Dutch coaster which had been in a collision was in danger of sinking in choppy seas and fresh south-southeasterly winds. Because of...
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of Decem- ber, 1960, a message was received from the honorary medical adviser that he had to go by air to the mainland to take an expectant mother to Redruth hospital as...
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 7.15 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a radio mess- age received from a local fishing boat stating that she had struck a...