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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Lerwick, Shetlands. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 23rd of January, 1959, the medical officer of health for the county of Zetland asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to convey a patient who was in urgent need of medical...
Honorary Life- Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution:...
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THE jubilee celebrations of the Swedish Life-boat Society were held at Gothenburg from the 17th to the 19th of May. Captain V. M. Wyndham-Quin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, and Colonel A. D.
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Fleetwood, Lancashire.—About 11.30 on the night of the 5th of February, 1954. the Formby coastguard rang up to say that a woman at Knott End had reported that she had seen red flares between Fleetwood and Barrow. At 1.15 on the 6th the...
Salcombe, Devon.—About seven in the evening, on the 31st of August, 1950, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a man in a rowing boat about a mile south of Prawle Point was in difficulties. At 7.15 the life-boat Mil- burn, 011 temporary...
Weston-super-Mare: On Wednesday July 25, 1984, the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Weston Centenary, was on stand-by for the town's air day. She was waiting to carry out a helicopter lift demonstration when a crew... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 12TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.44 A.M. the North Goodwin Light-vessel southerly breeze was blowing and the sea was reported that a vessel had struck a mine one calm, At 8.55 A.M. the motor life-boat Prudential was launched and found that...
For the enthusiast Lifeboats and Lifeboat Stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland ISBN 0902792 156 by Nicholas Leach Published by The Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society at £4.50 Nicholas Leach has prepared a most useful volume for the...
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EXMOUTH—On the 20th May, at 12.30 P.M., a fishing-boat was observed in distress outside the bar, a strong S.W. gale having sprung up suddenly accompanied by a heavy sea. The Life-boat Joseph Somes was immediately launched, but before she...