Lieutenant Turcopolier of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
AMONG his distinctions, Sir William Hillary was Lieutenant Turcopolier of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and we...
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Contents RNLI News 110 Volume L Number 499 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Lifeboat Services . 113 Focus on the Hon.
Secretaries by Ray Kipling . 120 Electronic Eyes and...
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 AWARDS FOR "CALCULATED COURAGE" 5 RESCUE DURING CONVALESCENCE 6 MEDAL FOR RESCUE FROM FISHING VESSEL . . . . . . . . . . J RESCUE OF MAN CUT OFF BY TIDE 9 ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY AWARD 9...
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Thursday, 18th October, 1928.
The HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Appointed Lieut.-Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., a District Inspector of Lifeboats.
Decided that, for...
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On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as quickly as...
JULY 13TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but all its crew were lost and six bodies were picked up by fishing boats. - Rewards, £6 18s. (See St. Abbs, “Services by Shoreboats,” page 61.)...
When a well-known Scarborough man ended up in the dark surf last Winter, the community did everything they could to help him -and his memory- live on
In the early evening of Sunday 22 February,...
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SUNDERLAND, NORTH DOCK.—While a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a very rough sea and torrents of sleet and rain, on the 26th October, the ketch Emma Walker, of Sunderland, laden with coal for Wick, attempted to enter the...
WITH this number we greet a new readership. This consists of members of the newly formed Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association to be known as the Y.L.A. The new Association was formally brought into being by Sir Alec Rose at...
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BY the death of Mr. Sholto F. Middleton, in October of last year, the Institution has lost one of its most successful and devoted Honorary Secretaries. Mr.
Middleton founded the Branch at Seaford, Sussex, in 1917, and...
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