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A Yacht (15)
NOVEMBER 1 7TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
A yacht had broken adrift from a tug which had her in tow, but a fishing vessel brought her in. - Rewards, £12..
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Anniversaries are big news this year! It's the Diamond Jubilee of our Patron, a century since the Titanic sank (page 48) and the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, a passionate supporter of the RNLI.
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Category: Articles
CORRECTION
Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was quick to spot an inaccuracy in the caption to the photograph of the Workington life-boat which appeared on page 493 of the December, 1968, issue Of...
Category: Articles
Queen's Commendation
THE Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct has been awarded posthumously to Joseph Bell; Stanley Graham; John Joseph Johnstone; and Alexander Black Ramsay.
The attempted rescue in which these four men, who were...
Category: Awards
The Queen Mother at the Wheel of the Thurso Life-Boat, the Three Sisters, After the Naming Ceremony Last Year. With Her Is Coxswain Gilbert Reid. the Harbour Scene Shows the Ceremony In Pro
The Queen Mother at the wheel of the Thurso life-boat, The Three Sisters, after the naming ceremony last year.
With her is Coxswain Gilbert Reid. The harbour scene shows the ceremony in progress and the 48-foot 6-inch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Century Record
Miss E. Dobie, ex-president of the Dunoon ladies' life-boat guild, reported late last year that one of their oldest guild members, Miss Oswald, had celebrated her hundredth birthday.
She lives at Kilmun, near Dunoon,...
Category: Articles
The Danish Steamer Marianne Toft, of Copenhagen
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. The Danish steamer Marianne Toft of Copenhagen, had sunk after collision with another vessel. Twelve of her crew landed in a ship’s boat, but ten others in another boat could not be found.-...
The Barges Astrild and Grecian
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 23rd November, 1938, the motor life-boat rescued the crews, four in number, of the two barges Astrild and Grecian.— Rewards: Bronze medal, letters of thanks, and monetary awards amounting to £49 14s....
Delila (2)
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
— When the Aberdeen trawler Roslin was wrecked on the night of the 4th-5th November, 1937, two of her crew of eight were rescued by the Aberdeen motor life-boat.—Rewards, silver second...
Delila (3)
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
— When the Aberdeen trawler Roslin was wrecked on the night of the 4th-5th November, 1937, two of her crew of eight were rescued by the Aberdeen motor life-boat.—Rewards, silver second...