WITH the view if still farther recognising long, faithful and good service in the Life-boat cause, the Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION introduced on the 1st January 1 last a pension and gratuity scheme,...
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At midnight on the 13th, in reply to signals from the Gull Lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, in a strong breeze at W.S.W., and proceeded under sail to the assistance of the barque Fleetwing, of Newcastle, bound...
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A large Greek steamer named the Othon Stathatos, of Ithaca, carrying a crew of twenty-three hands, and bound from Penarth to Athens with a cargo of 6,000 tons of coal, struck a submerged rock about two miles north of Pendeen and commenced to...
On the 30th December the brig Delegate, of London, struck on the Caister Shoal, or Inner Barber Sands, while the wind was blowing very hard from the south.
A Caister yawl went off to her assistance, but although one of the...
Coxswain Derek Scott, B.E.M., of the Mumbles life-boat, receiving a bar to his silver medal from the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I. at the annual meeting in London on 18th May.. - View image in PDF
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Out of Wedlock! The oldest swinger in town, in the form of Fred Wedlock, who made the hit song a favourite with the medallionwielding young-at-heart, provided an evening of all-round entertainment for the regulars of The Cross Inn, near... - View image in PDF
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On the night of the 23rd March, signals of distress were heard in the direction of the Cardiff Sands, the wind-blowing a strong gale from S.W.
at the time. The Baroness Windsor life- boat was at once launched, and it was...
A gallant attempt was made by this Life-boat, the Ellen and Margaret of Settle, on the 20th November, to rescue the crew of the schooner Rapid, of Boston.
In consequence of information from the Coastguard Station near the...
Bottom:The Anne Allen, Skegness lifeboat from 1932–53 including the War years. - View image in PDF
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