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Edward R Coker,
March Edward R Coker, president of Didsbury branch. Mr Coker was a founder member of the branch in 1964 and held office as chairman until 1967 and president from 1967 until his death. He was awarded the silver badge in 1983 and the gold...
Category: Obituaries
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.Hunting Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI.
Prices 8in by Sin - £13.00, 10in...
Category: Articles
Royal Bank of Scotland
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Category: Advertisement
A Boat
Seasick baby Donaghadee lifeboat's open day was interrupted this summer by an unusual emergency. The lifeboat took a paramedic and a doctor to assist a baby who was suffering from severe seasickness. The mother and baby were taken tack...
Lowestoft
LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK On the 30th September, 1943, the Lowestoft life-boat rescued ten of the crew of H.M. Minesweeper 106.
COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
A British Aeroplane (2)
MAY 13TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
A British aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but her crew of two were rescued by the lifeboat coxswain, who was out in his fishing boat at the time. - Rewards, £3 15s. (See Dunbar,...
A Ship’s Boat and an Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A ship’s boat was reported adrift and an aeroplane down in the sea, but the boat was found empty and of the aeroplane only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £7 2s..
A Small Boat (1)
JUNE 9TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A small boat with three boys on board had capsized close to the boom defence, Isle of Sheppey. One boy reached the boom and got ashore. The other two could not be found. - Rewards, £8...
Phirsaparoea, of Curacoa and American Steamer Pomona Victory
NOVEMBER 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Two vessels, the motor ship Phirsaparoea, of Curacoa, and the American steamer Pomona Victory, had been in collision, but did not need the life-boat. - Rewards, £11 17s..
Birthday Honours
RNLI Patron HM The Queen has honoured the following with Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE) for voluntary service to maritime safety: • Joel Grunnill (Chairman, Skegness Lifeboat Management Group) • Patrick Wood (Chairman, Harpenden...
Category: Articles