COMMODORE THE RT. Hox. THE EARL HOWE, P.C., C.B.E., V.R.D., R.N.V.R., has been elected Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution to succeed Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., who recently announced his...
Category: Committee
"English Coastal Evolution." By E M.
Ward (Methuen, 6s. 8d net).
Reviewed by A. W. Lewis, the Consulting Engineer of the Institution.
COASTAL changes concern the Institution...
Category: Articles
Letters of Gratitude.
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...
Category: Services
DUNBAR.—While a moderate. E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the morning of the 23rd February, intelligence was received that a. large vessel, which was subsequently ascertained to be the fourmasted barque...
Richard (Dick) Walsh, coxswain of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat from 1946 to 1974. He joined the ere w in 1938 and was bowman until 1941, then second coxswain from 1941 to 1946. He was awarded the Silver Medal in 1954..
Category: Obituaries
Doctor Dick Rutherfurd MB, vice chairman of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station branch. Dr Rutherfurd had been involved with the station since 1956, serving as honorary secretary, honorary medical adviser and committee member. He was awarded a...
Category: Obituaries
Torbay lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant returns to Torquay Harbour with the French racing yacht Corum and her 12-man crew in tow. The 45ft sloop had been in danger of foundering on the rocks off Hopes Nose after her rudder snapped in a... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 12.50 in the afternoon the landlord of the Crown Inn, on the sea front, was serving in his bar. The morning had been foggy, but at that moment the sun came through and as it did so...
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...
THE hundred and fifteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 26th April. Over 2,500 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Meetings