Concert and Thanksgiving Service.
The Centenary Celebrations in Douglas were held on Saturday and Sunday, May 22nd and 23rd, the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., going to Douglas specially...
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DURING the summer four Life-boat appeals have been broadcast in Ireland and Wales. On 30th May, just before Life-boat Day was held in Belfast, Sir Frederick Moneypenny, C.V.O., C.B.E., the City Chamberlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...
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The First Service of the Lerwick Life-boat.
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made...
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the 31st of January, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat saw that bad weather was making the conditions at the harbour bar and harbour entrance dangerous, and at 11.25 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
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On the morning of the 26th September a strong south- erly breeze increased to a whole gale, making the sea very heavy at the harbour bar. The local motor fishing boats Comfort, Enterprise, Widgeon and Rosa were at sea, and the motor life-...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1951, a strong north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea was rough. At 11.30 fishermen reported that the harbour entrance was dangerous. Six local fishing vessels were known to be...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 26th of December, 1951, the Tenby coastguard telephoned the Tenby life-boat station that the Helwick Lightvessel had reported that an ex-R.A.F. boat, which...