THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE On the 11th October, 1944, the Mumbles life-boat rescued the forty-two survivors of the crew of H.M.C.S. Cheboque.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM J. GAMMON was awarded the gold medal.
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During the six years of the war Mrs. Lotinga Smith, now in her 8gth. year, who is so well known and beloved for her life-boat work in the Gedling and Carlton districts of Nottingham, personally collected over £2,000, and these districts...
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ON the night of the 26th of October, 1953, the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay and the Anstruther life-boat James and Ruby Jackson were both launched in answer to distress rockets which had been seen three miles east of...
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IB it worth while to work for others ? Is it worth something to save life ? As the day broke, one fearfully stormy morning, a large barque ran on a bank of sand, eight miles from the British coast, and lay there at the mercy of the tempest,...
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Out with the antiseptic and sticking plasters. GP and RNLI Medical Adviser Dr JJ Green talks about how he caught the marathon bug …
‘It’s a disease,’ Dr JJ Green quips as he prepares for the 2010 Virgin London Marathon....
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Ditched helicopter WHEN ON THURSDAY July 31, 1980, Aberdeen Coastguard heard at 1213 that a British Airways helicopter returning from an oil rig in the Clyde Field with 15 people on board had ditched in the sea a 'mayday' relay was...
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—During a moderate N.N.E. gale and a heavy sea on the 2nd Feb., 1903, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Mary Boberts, of Carnarvon, which was lying in the roads. Rockets to assemble the crew were at...
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LAST December the Institution received from the Honorary Secretary of its Branch at Warminster, Wiltshire, a cheque for £16 as a legacy from the late Hugo Harbord Terchman. She wrote : " He was a young man just going to Oxford, who...
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