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A Vessel (4)
JANUARY 21ST. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. An unknown vessel had been reported ashore, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard as the position of the vessel had been wrongly given. - Rewards, £13 5s. 6d..
A Ship’s Boat
JUNE 13TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A drifting ship’s boat had been reported eighty-four miles west of Greenhead, Isle of Barra, but nothing was found.
Rewards, £18 14s..
Nearly £1000 Has Been Collected In Just 18 Months for Helston Branch In Cornwall Aero Park By the Rnli Display Featuring a Former Blue Peter Ilb In Recognition of T
Nearly £1,000 has been collected in just 18 months for Helston branch in Cornwall Aero Park by the RNLI display featuring a former Blue Peter ILB. In recognition of this outstanding contribution, Mrs Dorothy Winfrey, president of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Brightside, of Middlesbrough
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a small steamer aground on the east side of the Scroby Sands. A moderate west-north-west wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The...
Windgap, of London
AUGUST 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.50 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that North Foreland Radio had picked up a message from the American steamer City of Alma that a motor yacht to the north of Dumpton Buoy was in need of immediate...
Shield of Thanks
Gerry and Ingrid Stillman were presented with the Sue Curror memorial shield by Locks Heath and district branch recently, in recognition of all the hard work that they have done for the Institution over the years.
Gerry and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sixty Years of Service
MR. J. R. BARNETT, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., of the famous Glasgow firm of Messrs.
G. L. Watson, retired at the end of July from the post of consulting naval architect to the Institution, and the Committee of Management, as some...
Category: Articles
Four Years of War.
In four years of war our life-boats have rescued 5288 lives. They have rescued more lives in these four years of war than in the last fifteen years of peace. They have rescued 25 lives every week.
Life-boatmen have been...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain John A. Fox, of the Shoreham Harbour, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant. A member of the local crew since 1946, he was Second Coxswain from November, 1963, to April last year when he was promoted. Since 1946 Shoreham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs