At the recent Hitchin and district branch AGM, Laura Fagg, senior area organiser for the Eastern region, presented silver badges to two committee stalwarts - souvenir secretary Mollie Russell and branch secretary Phil Parrish - for their... - View image in PDF
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Last October over 400 guests and a targe crowd assembled for a unique triple ceremony at Fowey lifeboat station - the opening of the new boathouse and the naming of the station's new Trent and D class lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—29th December 1938. The Swedish steamer Britannia, of Gothenburg, had stranded, in calm but foggy weather, and did not need help.—Rewards, £10 Is. Qd..
Coxswain William Miller, of Eye- mouth, Berwickshire, who died on 13th February, at the age of sixty-eight, served as coxswain for twenty-six years. He was appointed coxswain in 1901, and retired in 1927, when he was awarded a certificate of...
Category: Obituaries
During a mode- rate north-easterly gale, with a rough sea, on the 25th October, a vessel was observed - to be in danger of drifting ashore, as her anchors were not holding, and the Life-boat George Leicester was promptly dispatched to her...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The fishing fleet put out early on the morning of the 6th May. Later on the weather got bad, a thick fog settled and the sea was rising fast. Some of the boats ran for harbour, and the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith...
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Portrush, Co. Antrim.—4th October, 1939. Distress signals had been re- ported but nothing could be found.
The life-boat was out for fifteen hours.
—Rewards, £21 165..
Newcastle, Co. Down.—16th August.
A yacht was in a dangerous position inside St. John's Point, but she got round it and made for Ardglass.— Rewards, £19 2s..
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. Two boys in a rowing boat had been reported missing in a thick fog, but the boat was found among the rocks, the boys apparently having left her there and gone home. - Rewards, £8...