Regular customers at the "Rising Sun" in the City of London are expected to carry with them certain unusual coins which they are known to possess. If they fail to produce them fines are imposed, and in this way the landlord, Mr. F....
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Airbed A BOY AND A GIRL being blown out to sea on an airbed off Ardrossan were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1525 on Tuesday June 21. Five minutes later Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat...
Award to the Peterhead Coxswain THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its "Testimonial on Parch- ment" to Coxswain John Buchan McLean, of Peterhead, a gold medallist of the Institution, for diving fully clothed into Port Henry...
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(Below) Port Isaac's new D Class ILB was dedicated on Easter Sunday by the Vicar of Port Isaac, The Reverend F. J. W. Maddock. She was the gift of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Round Tables and was presented by their area chairman. John... - View image in PDF
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Shortly before mid- night on the 3rd-4th July a wireless message was received that an aeroplane had come down between the South Goodwin Lightship and the Brake Buoy.
The weather was fine with a light...
AN important extension of the Institu- tion's practice of encouraging rescues by shore-boats was put into effect in the summer of 1962 by the Institution in conjunction with the Ministry of Trans- port. Its purpose is to make wider and...
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Selsey: Coxswain Michael J. Grant (r.), awarded the silver medal for the service to the Panamanian cargo vessel Cape Coast on January 10 and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the service to the fishing vessel New Venture... - View image in PDF
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John Petit joined St Peter Port lifeboat crew in 1952 and was appointed coxswain in 1964; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1963, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1972, bars to his bronze medal in 1975, 1977 and 1979 and... - View image in PDF
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THE ONLY LIFEBOATMAN AT PRESENT SERVING TO HAVE BEEN AWARDED THREE SILVER MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY by Joan Davies 'Grandfather . . . he was coxswain before Dad; and my Uncle Jim and Dad were both in the lifeboat with...
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ON 14th June, 1933, a life-boat society was established in Roumania. The King was its founder and is its president, and the governor of the National Bank of Roumania is ex officio the vice- president. The full title of the society is...
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