Some of Plymouth's present crew: (left to right) Coxswain John Dare, Frank Jago, Motor Mechanic Cyril Alcock, John Sheldon and Pat Marshall. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of The Scout Association. - View image in PDF
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HRH The Duke of Kent talks to medallists and voluntary workers at a reception following the presentations. - View image in PDF
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Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Caister, Norfolk, and Lowestoft, Suffolk.
— 17th May. A barge had grounded on Scroby Sand, but got off and was taken in tow by a tug.— Rewards, Caister, £14 12s. 6d.; Lowestoft, £13 175. Qd..
Peel and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—• 23rd July. A fishing boat had not returned to Peel with the fleet, but she was found by a trawler which joined the life-boats in the search.—Rewards, Peel, £10 4s. 6d; Port Erin, £7 2s..
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—3 r d August, 1938. After lights had been seen and calls for help heard from a yacht a search was made, but nothing was found, and it is assumed that the yacht had got away on the rising tide.— Rewards, £4 8s....
Wicklow - At 11.25 P-m- on 25tn August, 1966, the coxswain was told that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht.
The life-boat J. W. Archer left her moorings at 11.50 in a gentle easterly breeze and a choppy sea. It was...
JULY 20TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
News had been received from the coastguard that a trawler was in distress twenty-eight miles away, but she was picked up by a steamer.-Rewards, £16 10s..
AUG. 31ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A small sailing yacht with two men on board had broken adrift and was being carried out to sea in a dense fog, but when the motor life-boat found her she was safely at anchor and did not need help. -...
AUGUST 27TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
A naval vessel, towing a target for the army, was reported to have fouled some buoys, but she got clear without help.- Rewards, £13 16s..