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...
OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.
Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...
Category: Services
FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty,...
Category: Annual Reports
The weather was so bad on the night of the 6th March that a watch was kept all night and at about 6.30 next morning it was reported that a schooner off the Bull Lighthouse was steering very badly.
She was watched for some...
The Institution has received gifts of chocolate from Messrs. Cadbury, Fry, and Rowntree, and biscuits from Messrs. Huntley and Palmers, McVitie and Price and Peek Frean as emergency rations for its life-boats. By permission of the Ministry...
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Lizard AT a dinner held at the Housel Bay Hotel, the Lizard, on the 24th of April, 1959, to mark the hundredth anniver- sary of the founding of the life-boat station, Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented a...
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THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, came to Poole headquarters on Wednesday October 31 to draw the 20 winners of the twenty-seventh national lottery. More than £45,000 had been raised and the chairman was successful in drawing...
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Runswick, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, the life- boat mechanic, with a telescope, was watching a yacht manoeuvring and saw a small boat, two miles east of Runswick Bay, flying a distress signal. It was then 11.45,...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the llth of July, 1953, the harbour master told the life-boat station that a man had reported that his two sons had left Douglas in an eighteen-feet yacht.
They...