Coxswain John MacLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who a year ago won the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing two exhausted Norwegians from a ship's raft, when it was within 200 yard* of the rocks in a heavy sea, has now been...
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Captain Harold G. Innes, R.N., who retired as a district inspector on account of ill health in 1929, and returned to the Service in 1939, acting as inspector of the Western District throughout the war, has been made an O.B.E., for his...
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MARCH 24TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A flying boat had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found by the life-boat, and her crew were picked up by a warship the following day. - Rewards, £23 1s....
on 21st Jan., saved 8 men from the schooner Demi Wyn, of Portmadoc..
on 25th Jan., saved 2 men from the flat Cymraei, of Beaumaris;.
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
— When the Aberdeen trawler Roslin was wrecked on the night of the 4th-5th November, 1937, two of her crew of eight were rescued by the Aberdeen motor life-boat.—Rewards, silver second...
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
— When the Aberdeen trawler Roslin was wrecked on the night of the 4th-5th November, 1937, two of her crew of eight were rescued by the Aberdeen motor life-boat.—Rewards, silver second...
Selsey, Sussex.—The Institution's thanks on vellum and a special award of £2 were awarded to Life-boatman W. Arnell for going overboard from the life-boat on the 17th of April to the rescue of one of two men of a capsized fishing...
The Aberdeen life-boat going into action at a flooded camp (See page 312}. - View image in PDF
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THE photograph shows Coxswain Peter Smith of Bembridge, Isle of Wight. He was appointed on the ist January, 1956, and previously served as second coxswain from March, 1954, to Decem- ber, 1955. Since he became a member of the crew in March... - View image in PDF
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