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Fishing Boats

Date: November 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 158

CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A strong sea having risen with a dense fog on the 10th of May, the Life-boat Cooperator No. 1 was launched at about 8.30 A.M. to the assistance of three fishingboats whose return was rendered...

A Vessel

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

St. Ives, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. The motor life-boat put out to an unknown vessel, but capsized with the loss of seven of her crew of eight.— Rewards: Bronze medals and £88 2s.

(A full account of this life-boat...

Fishing Cobles

Date: November 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 170

NEWBIGGIN.—Seventeen of the fishingcobles which had gone to sea early in the morning of the 14th February were overtaken by a gale from S. to S.W. and a strong sea and, as their return home was attended by considerable risk, the Lifeboat...

Ex-Coxswain Patrick Sliney

Date: October 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 441

Ex-Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of the Ballycotton, Co. Cork, life-boat, who won the R.N.L.I, gold medal for gallantry for one of the most famous services in life-boat history, died at the age of 87. Mr. Sliney was alsoawarded the silver and...

Category: Obituaries

Mr Norman Wales

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

The Committee of Management suffered another severe loss with the death on 21st July of Mr. Norman Wales, J.P., who joined the Committee in 1961 and served on a number of sub-committees. He was chairman of Wates Ltd.

(civil...

Category: Obituaries

Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving

Date: June 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 388

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1958 has been won by Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St. Ives for the rescue of a party who were marooned in a cave on the 9th of August, 1958. A...

Category: Awards

A Dinghy (2)

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

At 9.25 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off the R7 buoy. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 9.40 in a moderate south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was...

Going for Broke

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

Walkers from Lloyds brokers Sneath Kent and Stuart took part in the 1991 Royal British Legion (Lloyds of London branch) city walk on 19 October to raise money for the Legion and the lifeboats.

To distinguish themselves from... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Bronze Medal. for Wick Coxswain.

Date: December 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 10

Coxswain Neil Stewart, of Wick, Caithness-shire, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing 31 men from a motor barge and a tug which had gone on the rocks in a gale. In the first glimmer of daylight the coxswain took...

Category: Articles

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Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

AUG. 31ST. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.

A cry for help had been heard by three boys from the Lydstep Caves. The motor life-boat was launched, and a coastguard search party went by car along the top of the cliff, and got down it...