OCTOBER 27TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 12.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a sailing boat was drifting towards the sands. She appeared to be in difficulties. A westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was...
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 6th of March, 1961, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings
Award of the Thanks of the institution Inscribed on Vellum.
ON the morning of January 26th, the whole of the Newbiggin fishing fleet had gone out in fine weather, but while they were at sea a sudden gale sprang up. By...
Category: Awards
After cracking their way through l'/2 inches of ice, members of the Dolphin Sub Aqua Club in Cirencester took part in a sponsored dive at South Cerney Lakes on Boxing Day in 1981. Eight divers took part and as a result £202.50 was... - View image in PDF
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Cromer, Norfolk. At 8.23 on the morn- ing of the 16th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a vessel had collided with the Haisbro' lightvessel, which was sinking. At 8.32, when the No. 1 life- boat...
Redcar, Yorkshire.—At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1949, the life-boat Louisa Polden was launched for exercise in a west-north- west wind, with a swell, and saw the Hartlepool yacht Kittiwake passing, bound for Whitby...
A marriage has been arranged, and will take place on 28th July, between George F. Shee, second son of the late Richard Jenery Shee, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and Mrs. Shee, and Helen Dorothea, younger daughter of the Rev. T....
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. . . and the sponsorship: Stephen Treadaway presents to Lionel Sharp, Faringdon branch secretary, the £220 which he raised by running in the Swindon Marathon. With them is Stephen's father, George, who in six years has raised over... - View image in PDF
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Photographs are notorious for reducing the apparent size of a wave - but one glance at that breaker, pictured between Teesmouth's Tyne class and the 97,000 tonne casualty, shows how truly horrendous the conditions were on 28... - View image in PDF
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THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Robert Cross, of the life-boat station on the Humber. Coxswain Cross joined the crew in 1906, when the station, which was then known as the Spurn station, was under the control of the Humber...
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