On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.
MR. D. L. HOBBS has been appointed Organising Secretary for the Midlands district.
Mr. Hobbs served during the war as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm. For six years after the war he was in the Colonial Service in Malaya, and...
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MR. HAROLD COWIE, s.s.c., a former member of the Committee of Management, died on the loth December, 1963.
Mr. Cowie served on the Committee of Management from 1949 until his resignation a few months before he died. He was...
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Glanvill Enthoven INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE BROKERS In our 75th anniversary year, we send greetings to all our clients including the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
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A smashing time! Watched by crew members of the Aberdeen lifeboat, Alister Yorston, district manager of United Rum Merchants and Norman Trewren, coxswain, broke open pub collection bottles for the RNLI. Aberdeen-based Watsons Rum has built... - View image in PDF
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SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...
HILBRE ISLAND.—The lightkeeper at Hoylake having observed a vessel ashore on the West Hoyle, on the morning of the llth April, at once communicated with Hilbre Island, with the result that the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 5.45,...
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, information was received from the coastguard that a yacht had burned a red flare four to five miles north- north-west of Tol-Pedn-Penwith. The life-boat Susan Ashley was...
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1952, the Penmon coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported aground on the Dutchman Bank, and at 5.40 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...