AUGUST 11TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
During an air battle an aeroplane had come down in flames, and the pilot was seen to drop into the sea by parachute, but he could not be found. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..
Ex-Provost Adam C. H. Todd, chairman of Girvan station branch since 1947; he was awarded a statuette in 1968 and the silver badge in 1984..
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Mr Phil Parish, secretary of Hitchin and district brnahc since 1988 and committee member since 1985. He was awarded the Silver badge in 1998..
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April 1998 Bob Vowles, St Peter Port lifeboat station mechanic. He also served at the station as assistant mechanic and a crew member.
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William Pirie, coxswain of Whitehills lifeboat from 1957 to 1969. He joined the crew as bowman in 1949 and was second coxswain from 1952 until his appointment as coxswain..
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Brian Fell, chairman of Hinckley branch from 1980 to 1995 and honorary secretary from 1975 to 1980. A founder member of the branch he was awarded a Silver badge in 1991..
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FEBRUARY 12TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. A steamer had stranded off Crail, but when the life-boat coxswain hailed her he was thanked and told that help was not needed. - Rewards, £9.
Shortly before midnight on the 14th February, the Tolsta post office telephoned that two local fishing boats were in distress off Tolsta Head, which is about twenty- two miles by sea north of Stornoway.
A strong west wind...
THE Royal Air Force has presented a silver and enamel R.A.F. crest to the Lerwick life-boat and it has been fitted in the after-shelter. With it came a message from the officer commanding the No. 18 Group: "The crest is sent in...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 11.27 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the Sunderland coast- guard telephoned that the Souter light- house had reported that a small boat could be seen drifting off Souter...