The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge award is made each year for the most meritorious service in an Atlantic B class lifeboat. The RNLI Trustee Committee met on 23 July and agreed that the 2007 award should be made to Flamborough Helmsman...
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THE Institution desires to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, Ltd., Messrs. W. and R. Jacob, Ltd., and Messrs. Peak Frean and Co., Ltd., for gifts of biscuitsj for use in the Life-boats; also to Messrs. Cadbury...
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On the 2nd Decem- ber, the brig Prodroma, of Stockton, was driven ashore on the North Gare Sand, near the entrance of the river Tees. On the intelligence being conveyed to Middles- borough, the Institution's life-boat stationed there was...
On the 4th October the brig Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, in making Rye Harbour, grounded on the bar. The Rye life-boat landed the master and crew, and on the following tide, the weather having mo- derated, they again proceeded to the brig,...
On the 14th July the Withernsea Life-boat went out during a strong breeze from the N.E. to the steamer Rotta, of Hull, which had gone ashore about two miles south of Withern- sea. The vessel, however, succeeded in getting out of danger...
. — Early on the morning of the 2nd January, during a strong W.S.W.
breeze and heavy sea, large flare lights were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand, and the Lightships fired guns and rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat...
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—On the night of the 16th March a vessel was observed on " Taylor's Bank," and in response to a telephone message the steam Life-boat Queen was sent to her assistance. She found...
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D., died in his loist year on i5th October, 1965. He was, in the words of The Times obituary, "one of the outstanding seamen of his time". A man of few words and...
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Dusk recovery: Minehead Atlantic 21 ILB, returning from exercise, is caught by the arrester net rigged on her trolley. She is manned by Helmsman Chris Kundle, Crew Member Peter Smythe (to starboard) and Crew Member Peter McGregor, who is... - View image in PDF
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