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Coxswain John Gill
COXSWAIN JOHN GILL, of Galway Bay, who served as bowman from 1932 to 1933, second coxswain from 1933 to 1938 and coxswain from 1938 to 1943, was awarded the bronze medal in 1938 for the rescue of eleven men when the steam trawler Nogi went...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
An Aeroplane (2)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Pilot Me and Gem
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened and at one o’clock the coastguard reported that a...
The Morning Star and St Joseph
At 10.10 P.M.
on the llth January the Coastguard reported that two of the fishing-boats belonging to Arklow were off Courtown Harbour in need of assistance owin"' to the whole N.E. gale causing a very heavy sea,...
Valhalla and a Yacht
Yacht towed in THE HIGH WINDS OF Sunday August 11, 1985, which brought about a bronze medal service at St Peter Port, Guernsey and vellum services at Weymouth and Ramsgate (already reported in earlier issues), and which involved 39 stations...
Saving Life from Shipwreck In Denmark
THE Danish Life-saving service is con- centrated in one department under the Government, and not as in this country, divided between the Government and the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a charitable society incorporated by Royal...
Category: Articles
Pilot Me II, Success, Progress, Provider A and Lead Us.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.15 in the morning of the 10th of December, 1951, the coastguard reported that the local Pilot Me II was approaching the harbour. The sea was rough and a strong northerly wind was blowing. At 9.25 the...
Local Girls Who Went Out Collecting for the R.N.L.I, at Llandudno Last Year. They Are (Left to Right) Anne Williams, Lyn Neville, Jane Gregory and Hilary Neville.
Local girls who went out collecting for the R.N.L.I, at Llandudno last year. They are (left to right) Anne Williams, Lyn Neville, Jane Gregory and Hilary Neville.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs