The list of honours bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the New Year Honours for 1959 included :— K.B. Mr. J. A. MILNE, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director, J. Samuel White & Co.
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'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
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MARCH 11TH. - CROMARTY. Signals, thought to come from a crashed aeroplane, had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
As a result of negotiations which have been going on between the Board of Trade and the Institution since July, 1920, the Institution has now taken over full financial responsibility for the Ramsgate Station, and, as from 31st March last,...
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The Kapok Design Was Used From 1906 Until The Late 1960S. - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...
Dinghy and canoe A SAILING DINGHY with two boys on board capsized in a fresh south westerly breeze, force 5, about three miles west north west of Redcar lifeboat station on Saturday May 22. The D class lifeboat launched at 1612 manned by...
THE Republic of Ireland's river Shannon, longest in these off-Europe islands, and, with its many lakes and tributary Grand Canal and river Barrow making it probably one of the largest single connected waterways in Europe, is becoming...
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DOUGLAS, ISLE or MAN.—On the 16th September, at 1 P.M., a vessel was observed about eight miles off Douglas Head showing signals of distress. The wind *?as blowing a whole gale from the W. at the time. The No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-...
Coxswain Douglas Matthewson presents to HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, during his visit to Arbroath on May 11, the lifeboatmen who man the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat RNLB Shoreline. photograph by courtesy of D. C. Thomson... - View image in PDF
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