Inset Bronze Medal winner and honorary secretary Derek Sargent. - View image in PDF
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OCT. 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
Information was received that the small fishing boats of Fraserburgh, Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory, had put out at 2.30 P.M. but had not returned by 6.40 P.M.,...
JANUARY 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. As soon as the Eileena had been brought in the coxswain reported it to the naval control, which at once asked him to go out again to the four T.I.D. tugs 111, 112, 113 and 115. The previous night,...
JANUARY 11TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. At 10.39 A.M., the coastguard reported explosions about eight miles to the N.N.E. of Cromer. The weather was cold, with a light easterly wind blowing and a smooth sea. At 10.45 A.M. the Cromer...
JANUARY 11TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. At 10.39 A.M., the coastguard reported explosions about eight miles to the N.N.E. of Cromer. The weather was cold, with a light easterly wind blowing and a smooth sea. At 10.45 A.M. the Cromer...
MAY 2ND. - LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At 7.15 A.M. the Croyde coastguard reported a steamer ashore to the east of Lynmouth. A light easterly wind was blowing, with a smooth sea, and the weather was hazy. The pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard...
NOVEMBER 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Two vessels, the motor ship Phirsaparoea, of Curacoa, and the American steamer Pomona Victory, had been in collision, but did not need the life-boat. - Rewards, £11 17s..
A French life-boat, which escaped from France at the end of June 1940 and arrived at an English port, with her coxswain, motor mechanic and French refugees on board, has been taken over by the Institution for the war.
She...
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NOVEMBER 18TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
The Staithes fishing boats Minnie, Flora and Star of Hope had put to sea at 10 A.M. in fine weather, but by 1.45 PM. the N.W. wind had increased and the sea had become very rough,...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1936 - - - - 64,752 King Edward VIII and the Life-boat...
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