Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...
MARCH 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 9.20 in the morning the coastguard reported that a small Danish fishing boat was hove to near Whitby Rock Buoy, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9.35. A...
Fore! Over 100 members and guests of Sundridge Park Golf Club faced real lifeboating weather when they took part in a sponsored charity tournament in April, the idea of the men's and ladies' captains of the club, Vic and Bridie...
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THE gentle CHARLES CLIFFORD, who, after years of severe suffering, passed away a short time since, deserves a few words in service on occasions when life-boats unassisted | the great value of his invention for Lowering " 'The...
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LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1906) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
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Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 15th of January, 1954, the Formby coast- guard telephoned that the man in the Ribble navigation barge Musgrave, moored three quarters of a mile west of Lytham pier, had reported that...
BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES On the 5th September, 1943, the Barra Island life-boat rescued fifteen of the crew of the S.S. Urlana, of London.
COXSWAIN MURDO SINCLAIR was awarded the silver medal..
Category: Medals
BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE On the 6th December, 1940, the Barry Dock life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the S.S. South Coaster, of London.
COXSWAIN DAVID LEWIS was awarded the bronze medal..
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Ix common with Their Majesties the King and Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught has always been a warm sympathiser with the work of the Institution, and, in the midst of many national duties, he has...
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Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...