SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
THURSDAY, 8th January, 1891.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
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HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1 P.M., on the 15th April, and stood by the fishing coble Guiding Star, of Hauxley, which had been overtaken by a very heavy sea. The other boats had landed, the...
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1910.
Colonel Sir FitzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance...
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READERS of The Life-Boat will not need to be reminded of the efforts which the Institution has made during the last two years to call attention to the failure of the shipping community of Great Britain to give adequate support to the...
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Keith and Nigel Pask decided to clear out their toy cupboard and set up a mini-market in the garage of their house in Banbury, Oxfordshire. They invited school friends to come and buy and at the end of the day had taken £19.50 for the... - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 4th January, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...
Long Hope Life-Boat Crew 1963. - View image in PDF
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.40 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Honey Bee of Peterhead was leaking badly and in danger of sinking off Buchan Ness. At...