Thursday, 15th October, 1925.
Sir GODFREY BARING, fit., in the Chair.
Decided that the Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) Life-boat Station be permanently established, and that the Totland Bay Station be...
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Naming and dedication Ceremonies - Wells-Next-The-Sea- Mersey Class Doris M Mann of Ampthill It was obvious as dawn broke on a cloudless and sunny summer's day on 17 July that everyone at Wells-next-the-Sea had pulled out all the stops...
Category: Inaugurations
Ix 1946 Colonel Niall Rankin, F.Z.S., F.R.P.S., F.R.G.S., of Calgary, in the Isle of Mull, went out to the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic.
He sailed in October in a whale factory ship, taking with him a motor...
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IT is with very great regret that we record two Life-boat disasters on the French coast during the present year.
In one of them two Life-boats of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Nau- frages were wrecked with the loss...
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Dial 999 - Emergency Services in Action by John Creighton ISBN 1-85058-297-1 published by Sigma Leisure at £9.95 John Creighton has spent some time as an operational firefighter and in the maritime rescue services, so is well qualified...
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WE wish to draw the attention of all readers of The Life-boat to a song called " The Life-boatman," the words and music of which have been written by Mr. Louis Drakeford. This song is being published, under the auspices of the...
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During a southerly gale and in a heavy sea, on the 3rd Jan., 1869, the Yarmouth beachmen observed a vessel apparently on the Scroby Sands. The large life-boat, the Mark Lane, was at once launched and taken in that direction, but when near...
The narrow stretch of water which separates England from France has long been a hub of marine activity, and lifeboat stations have been established there for nearly 200 years. Mike Floyd looks at the Dover Straits today and the way in which...
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April Meeting.
Burra Isle, Shetlands. — While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the...
Category: Services
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-...
Category: Committee