MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
CASUALTY FOUND 20FT FROM ROCKY LKK SHORK Crew rescued from fishing vessel in Force 11 winds and total darkness Coxswain/Mechanic Thomas Ralston of Mallaig has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for rescuing two men and their...
100 Years Ago The following three items were first published in the journals of February. Mav and Aueust. 1885.CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen...
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NEW! The Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines at The Mountbatten Festival of Music, 1997 tecorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. "The Uountbatten Festival of Music 1997" is the atest in a long line of musical triumphs by...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in The Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh, on May 23 this year. Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council, was in the chair at the...
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Swim to yacht A YACHT AGROUND on rocks in the vicinity of Beckermet, about six miles south of St Bees, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Bees lifeboat station by Liverpool Coastguard at 0400 on Sunday August 29, 1982. It was an...
Tyne saves crew of fjve from stranded fishing vessel Fraserburgh's Tyne class lifeboat City of Edinburgh was involved in a service on 11 September 1995 which although fairly short in duration was commended by the divisional inspector of...
Duke of Kent to present awards The Institution's President, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, will address the meeting of the annual presentation of awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in May. He will also present bravery...
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THE Return of the Registrar-general of Seamen, recently published, shows that during the past year 413,972 vessels—representing a tonnage of nearly 62 millions— entered inwards and cleared outwards from British ports. The estimated value of...
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