Grant Cook - former Selsey lifeboat station inshore and all weather Crew Member.
Category: Obituaries
For her 1981-82 charity, the Mayoress of Canterbury, Mrs Owen Wildman, chose the RNLI as her special charity and raised more than £4,000 for Whitstable lifeboat station. Of that amount, her husband the Mayor, Councillor 'Biff... - View image in PDF
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branch, unveiled a commemorative plaque recording that the ILB had been funded from a special RNLI 150th anniversary appeal organised by Truro. Standing with Mrs Jenkins is the honorary secretary of Bude ILB station branch, Mr S. W. Whateley... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain George Cromarty, of Holy Island, who died on 14th January at the age of seventy-six, was second coxswain from 1897 to 1911, and coxswain from 1911 to 1932, so that for over thirty- four and a half years he served as an officer of...
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THE Institution took a small stall at the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition which was held during the first week of January. On the opening day it also had the use of a stall called King Arthur's Table, which was given, without charge, to a...
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DOCTOR PUT ON BOARD TANKER IN SNOWSTORM Humber, Yorkshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 16th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board a tanker two miles south of the...
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—About 1.0 in the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1951, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that two Meteor jet aeroplanes had crashed into the cliffs at Bempton in a mist. Later, he said it was between the...
7th August.
A steam launch reported ashore, but could not be found.—Rewards, £5 3s.
12th Septem- ber. A steamer had been in collision with another steamer, but did not need help.—Rewards, £16 17s. Qd..
20th August. A small boat had been seen in difficulties, but could not be found.— Rewards, £10 4s. 6d..