IN 1947 the Institution held 817 flag days. The number of people who gave was 7,545,000, and the sum given was £93,503..
Category: Donations
The annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. will take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, at 3 p.m..
Category: Meetings
APRIL 1991 W, Softley, the last surviving crew member of the Brancaster lifeboat, the station having closed in 1935..
Category: Obituaries
AT the annual meeting of the committee of this Fund, held on the 19th January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, it was reported by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, that during...
Category: Meetings
Erin's dogged determination! Whitstable's Atlantic had been involved in a very different service a few months earlier. Erin, a two-andhalf- year old Labrador-Doberman cross had grown bored of watching his dog-walkers Nick Warne and...
Two young girls playing in a dinghy on 19 May found themselves drifting into open water and jumped overboard to try to swim to shore.
A honeymooning couple spotted them struggling and called the Coastguard. Loch Ness...
Category: Articles
Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.
—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 22nd June the coxswain saw a yacht, about three and a half miles south of Aldeburgh, hoist a distress signal. A moderate west gale was blowing, and the sea was rough. As the motor life-boat was...
Hastings, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1960, the life-boat mechanic asked the coastguard to keep a catamaran under observation.
As the weather was becoming rapidly worse and the boat could not be...
At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd July, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch trawler Pollux had a mine on board. She was making for the Tyne and a R.N. bomb and mine disposal party were on their way from Rosyth.
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