On the 28th March a message by telephone was received stating that a schooner was close in shore evidently making for Mont rose. As a strong gale was blowingfrom the E. and there was a very heavy sea on the bar, the Life-boat Robert...
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 3.20 in the afternoon on the 20th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned to say that a small yacht was in distress in Pegwell Bay. The two men on board were waving an oar with a flag attached.
At 3.28...
Happier time: Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, Director of the RNLI, is pictured with some of the parents of the children who died at Land's End in 1985, after the handing over of a cheque for £52,000 in the boys' memory.. - View image in PDF
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Gt. Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.30 on the night of the 29th of December, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the Gorton lightvessel had reported a flare seen south-east of the lightvessel....
Nine rescued A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY, With One man on board, was seen by HM Coastguard at 2018 on Sunday, July 4, some three miles north east of Beaumaris lifeboat station, drifting out to sea with the freshening offshore wind and ebbing...
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.55 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Friedi, of Delfzijl, had broken down two miles north-north-west of Inishowen Head. At 7.10 the...
To Mr. H. S. COLE, upon his retirement after 10J years' service as Honorary Secretary of the Rhosneigir Branch, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
To Mr. B. H. JONES, upon his retirement after 18...
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Montrose, Angus.^On the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1957, the wife of the skipper of the fishing boat Mizpah informed the motor mechanic that her husband's boat had broken down with engine trouble off Buddon Point., At two o'clock...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.57 a.m. on 23rd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares at Whittaker Beacon. The life-boat Isabella and Edward Irvin was launched at 6.22 in a strong westerly wind...
Coxswain James Thomson, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, has won both the Institution's silver medal and the British Empire Medal for rescuing the crew of a steamer in the blizzard which swept the west coast ot Scotland in the middle of...
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