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New Ways of Raising Money

Date: March 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 367

A NEW type of collecting box has been designed by Group-Captain John Potter of Crowborough. It takes coins of all sizes, and every time a coin is dropped into the box a model life- boat is launched. A number of these boxes were displayed at...

Category: Donations

Amulet

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

ENGINE FAILED, SAIL CARRIED AWAY Walmer, Kent.—At 8.17 on the night of the 9th of September, 1947, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the auxili- ary yacht Amulet needed a tow one mile east of St. Margarets Bay. The motor life-boat Charles...

Jezebel

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

FOUR PEOPLE FOUND ON BEACH St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 12.8 early on the morning of the 4th September, 1962, a bright, flashing light was seen on Jethou, and at 12.25 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put to sea in a moderate south-westerly...

New District Inspectors Appointed

Date: June 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 404

As a consequence of the steady in- crease in the number of services by life- boats and the need to train crews in the use of new types of rescue craft and equipment it has been decided to increase from the 1st July, 1963, the number of the...

Category: Committee

Two Station Secretaries

Date: June 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 372

JOHN W. BAYES, M.B.E., honorary secretary at Flamborough from Sep- tember 1920 to July 1954, died on the 24th of November, 1954. For his long and valued services the Institution awarded him binoculars in 1931 and the gold badge in 1948. In...

Category: Obituaries

Ros Airgead

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the morning of the 16th of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed by Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead was drifting five miles west of Bray Head with a defective fuel pipe, and...

Rondinella

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.10 on the evening of the 7th May, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of three was in distress off Cressington Park. Twelve minutes later, when the life-boat Norman B....

Mariet

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that smoke signals had been observed about seven miles west-south-west of Clacton pier.

The life-boat II.C.J., on temporary...

Gowan

Date: June 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 384

Dunbar, East Lothian. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 19th of March, 1958, a message was received that a fishing boat was in need of help twelve miles east-north-east of Dunbar.

At 10.25 the life-boat...

Naom Brigid

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

JUST IN TIME Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 1.15 p.m. on 22nd June, 1964, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that an unknown fishing vessel was in serious difficulties 5! miles north-north-east of Loop Head.

There was a...