On the morn- ing of the 17th of November a vessel was seen burning a light as a signal of distress during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in a heavy sea. The Grocers' life-boat, sta- tioned at Mundesley, was at once got ready, and...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...
Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
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(2)—Life-boat going to rescue of yacht on the Pye sands, off the Naze, Walton, April, 1971.. - View image in PDF
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When Major-General and Mrs Farrant visited South Wales at the end of November, Mrs Farrant presented a ship''s bell to Coxswain Edward Powell and the crew of the Barry 52' lifeboat Arun. It was to commemorate the first visit she... - View image in PDF
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Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 255 Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 257 _ _ i VT T T Revision of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: V OlUrFie -/V-Ll V an introduction to an introduction, by...
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The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...
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Robert and Marcella Beck which, in a near gale on January 13, 1942, saved an RAAF Sunderland flying boat from the rocks on to which she was drifting. For this service Coxswain Walter Crowlher was awarded a bronze medal.. - View image in PDF
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(Right) The final Hampshire Rose Appeal cheque, for £3,300 bringing the grand total to £71,400, was presented by Sir Alec Rose, chairman of the Appeal Committee, to Anthony Oliver, district organising secretary (South), on October... - View image in PDF
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continued from page 11 had been washed overboard and into the propeller.
Ten minutes later it became clear that the fishing vessel had got some power to her propeller and she began to make slowly for harbour with the...
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