In the front row are the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Cardiff and the Mayor and Mayoress of Newport, and immediately behind them Colonel Watts Morgan, M.P., the Chief Constable of Cardiff and Captain P. H.
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Left to risht, Mr. George F. Shee. M.A. (Secretary of the Institution), Mrs. Sim, Second-Coxswain James Sim. - View image in PDF
of Fraserbursh, Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E.. R.N. (Chief Inspector of Life-boats).. - View image in PDF
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The Humber, Yorkshire.—9th May, 1939. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea off the Lincolnshire coast, but only wreckage was found. Two shoreboats also took part in the search.
(See "Shoreboat Services,"...
Peel, Isle of Man.—29th May, 1939.
A competitor in the Manx Air Races had crashed into the sea, but he was picked up by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £7 13s..
On the 7th February the s.s. Disperser, of West Hartlepool, was sinking, and the motor life-boat rescued one of the crew, but the coxswain received in- juries from which he died.—Rewards, Gold medal, with vellum, and £29 9s....
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—On the 30th January the crew of the Abertay light vessel were rescued.—Rewards: Thanks inscribed on vellum and £9 12s.
(A full account of this service, appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat...
Torhay, Devon.—27th October, 1937.
A vessel had been reported in difficulties off the Thatcher Rock, but nothing could be found. She must have gone on her way.—Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—21st May, 1938. A disabled shrimp boat had been driven into the breakers, but her crew of two were rescued from the shore by the coastguard rocket lifesaving appliances.—Rewards,...
Salcombe, Devon.—6th August, 1938.
A motor boat had been reported missing, but while a search was being made to the westward, the boat returned from the eastward.—Rewards, £9 Is..
On the 13th of July, 1952, the Barrow life-boat took two exhausted men off a converted life-boat in heavy seas.
—Rewards: the thanks of the Insti- tution inscribed on vellum to Cox- swain Roland Moore; £16 7s. For a...