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The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.
At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...
Category: Correspondence
Passer's Rum
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Category: Advertisement
Hayling Island - Double Silver Medal Service, 25 October 1992. the Photograph Shows the Difficult and Hazardous Conditions In Which the Rescue Took Place. Coa
Hayling Island - double silver medal service, 25 October 1992. The photograph shows the difficult and hazardous conditions in which the rescue took place.
Coastguard helicopter attempting to pass a hi-line to the crew of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 17th April, at 3 p.m.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Meetings
Lightvessel Breaks Adrift
AT 9.49 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the Walmer honorary secre- tary that the East Goodwin lightvessel, which had been buffeted by heavy seas, had broken adrift from her moorings and was driving...
Category: Services
(Left Below) to Commemorate a Favourite Customer Albert Howes the Talbot Hotel at Ripley Surrey
(Left, below) To commemorate a favourite customer, Albert Howes, the Talbot Hotel at Ripley, Surrey, has raised £3,000 to buy a radar for a lifeboat. The target was finally reached on Easter Saturday when a publicity D class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helma II
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.40 early on the morning of the 26th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Durham that the yacht Helma II, which had a crew of two,...
Dib II
Weymonth, Dorset-At 6.16 p.m.
on 4th January, 1970, the coastguard reported that a distress signal had been sighted about five miles east north east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings...
Storm Warnings
[THE following paper on " Storm Warnings" is one of the latest written by the late-lamented Admiral FitzRoY; and it is to us a melancholy satisfaction to publish it in these columns, where he so often gave the results of his great...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1880.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence...
Category: Committee