HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1959 included : K.C.M.G. COMMANDER THE RIGHT HONOURABLE A. H. P.
NOBLE, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.
(Retd.), a former...
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THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1956 has been won by Reginald Carey, of Coverack, Cornwall.
Reginald Carey, who is normally second coxswain of the Coverack lifeboat, was acting coxswain when the...
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Dunmorc East, Co. Waterford. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of April, 1958, the owner of a local hotel told the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen over the cliffs at Portally while shooting seals and was lying...
ANXIOUS ABOUT SON Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.30 p.m. on 2Oth June, 1964, a woman caller, Mrs. Moore, telephoned the honorary secretary to say that her eleven year old son and his uncle, who had put to sea together in a 26-foot...
In spite of rather grim weather for part of the time, the sun eventually shone on the Kingston, Surbiton and Molesey branches' annual inter-club regatta weekend which was a great success. Nearly 150 boats from 14 yacht clubs, including... - View image in PDF
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A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...
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RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Month of mudness Helmsman ‘Tommo’Thompson and crew from Exmouth, Devon, rescued two 14-year-olds...
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In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 642, 646 and 648, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January, February, 1969,...
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I was interested to read your article ‘Wind power in Shetland’. At a time when wind power, in the form of a proposed 150-turbine wind farm in Shetland, is the subject of much debate, I believe that smaller units to make individual operations...
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Honorary Life-Governor The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MRS....
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