JUNE 6TH. - MONTROSE ANGUS, AND GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE. At one in the morning the Montrose station heard from the coastguard that a convoy was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes thirteen miles E. 3/4 N. from Scurdyness, and at six minutes...
Henry Blogg’s peaceful manner reflected a humble background – he was born in a small cottage near Cromer’s pier, and in many ways was a typical Norfolk fisherman.
After joining the town’s lifeboat crew in 1894, he was...
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SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 35) £. s. d. £. i. d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 38 13 2 Dunnett Widows and Orphans Fund 128 11 11 Reardon Samaritan Fund...
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Thursday, llth February, 1937.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir HENRY F.
OLIVER in the chair.
Resolved that the respectful thanks of the Institution be conveyed to Her Majesty the Queen for her...
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MR. CLAUDE M. HART, secretary of the station at The Lizard, Cornwall, retired at the end of last September after serving for 39 years. He had then passed his 79th year. He brought to his work for the Life-boat Service a great love of the sea...
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NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...
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A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...
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OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched 42 times and rescued 16 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO SHETLAND ISLAND Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at...
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VERY CLOSE TO THE SEA are people of the Isle of Man. Set in the Irish Sea almost equidistant between England and Ireland, with Scotland to the north and Wales to the south, not only is the island itself dependent on sea trade but is lies...
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LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
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