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Category: Medals
Workington, Cumberland - At 7.35 p.m. on 5th January, 1969, the coastguard reported that distress flares had been sighted off Workington. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her moorings at 8 o'clock. It was low water. The...
The Institution has suffered a severe loss by the death on February 2oth of Mrs. Eva Leeming, organising secretary for Greater London. She was appointed assistant organising secretary in 1926. In 1935 she became joint organising secretary,...
Category: Articles
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant Life-boat Crew of the little village of Rye Harbour, sweeping away practically the whole adult...
Category: Articles
A ship was ob- served in distress on the Long Bank, during a southerly gale, on the 25th November.
The St. Patrick life-boat went off to her, and found she was abandoned. Afterwards she floated off the sands, but capsized...
Coffee mates Pupils from Derwentwater Infants School, all aged between five and six years old, ran a parents' coffee morning last November, baking cakes and serving their guests themselves. Parents jumped at the chance to be served by...
Category: Articles
At 6.30 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Batory of Gydnia had embarked a sick man from the weather ship Weather Adviser. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 8 o'...
Mr. C. J. H. Thornhill, of Stanbrook and Thornhill, Holland Street, London, writes: I have kept a life-boat collecting box on my yacht (a smack built in 1894) for a year and during that period, by merely rattling it around the crew at...
Category: Articles
Colonel the Hon. Harold B. Robson, a Vice-President of the Institution, died on 13th October, 1964, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management in 1933 and was elected a Vice-President in 1955. He served on the general purposes...
Category: Obituaries
On the 10th December, during a fresh gale from S.S.E.
and heavy cross-sea, the schooner Atlanta, of Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, after striking on the Barber Sands, on the Nor- folk coast, went ashore on Hasborough...