Mrs. Hilda C. Brown, who has been honorary secretary of the Withernsca Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1926, and was awarded the Institution's gold badge in 1937, has been made an M.B.E. for her many public services during the war..<...
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SEPTEMBER 26TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had dropped into the sea in flames, but it was learned later that the airmen had been rescued and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £6 17s..
The Lady Leigh Life- boat of this station saved 6 men from a Ashing coble in great danger off this Port on the 8th Feb..
On the 25th March this Life-boat again assisted, together with other boats and steam-tugs, in saving the ship Ernestine, of Amsterdam..
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
A COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to CHARLES LACOCK, 16| years coxswain, 1J years second coxswain, and 4J years bowman of the Caister...
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On board a life-boat at Westminster with the Chief Inspector. In front are member» of the Fishguard cr«w to whom he presented medals.. - View image in PDF
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Ramsgate, Kent.—25th June. An aeroplane had been reported to be in the sea, but the life-boat could find nothing.—Rewards £5 8s..
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — 24th September. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, and a boat had picked up a body. The life-boat dragged with a grapnel, but without result.— Rewards, £5 2s. Qd..
Mr. Noel E. Peck, who died in October, 1937, had been a vice-president of the Institution since 1922. He was a distinguished figure in the shipbuilding industry on the Clyde and elsewhere, and during the war was a director of shipbuilding in...
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A CINEMA which had helped the In- stitution by showing one of its films asked in return if the Institution could lend it a flag with skull and crossbones.
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