At 4.30 p.m. on 6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a Thames spritsail barge was aground on Margate Hook sands and asked if the IRB could investigate. She had not fired any distress signals but appeared to be in...
Among the awards announced in the Birthday Honours list were: KCVO Captain Alastair Sturgis Aird, cvo.
Sir Alastair is Comptroller and Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the...
Category: Articles
As soon as possible after the arrival of a new Life-boat at her Station an exer- cise is held, preferably in rough weather, in order not only to test her sea-going qualities, but also as a means of giving the crew some experience of the boat...
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Contents Volume 51 Number 506 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MN] RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15...
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The medallists aboard the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat displayed on The Embankment (I. to r.): Helmsman John Hodder, Lyme Regis; Coxswain 'Harry' Jones, Hoylake; Coxswain Trevor England, Padstow; Coxswain Kenneth Voice,... - View image in PDF
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IN another column of the Life-boat Journal we give an account of the exceptionally fine service performed by the Gorleston Life-boatmen on the 29th March, which led to the Fifth Service Clasp being bestowed on Cox- swain Sidney Harris and...
Category: Medals
About midday on the 12th May the weather began to look boisterous with a growing sea, and shortly before three of the Spittal cobles had sailed for Goswick Bay. The Honorary Secretary having been apprised of this, he directed the Coxswain of...
Launches 86. Lives rescued 90., September Meeting.
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of...
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FRENCH FISHING VESSEL IN ST. IVES BAY St. Ives, Cornwall.—For several days before the 2nd of May, 1947, the French motor fishing vessel L'Entente Cordiale, of Lorient, had been anchored in St.
Ives Bay, and had been a...
OCTOBER 4TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. A steamer had gone aground north of Rudha Hunish, Skye, but she got off without help and went on her way.- Rewards, £7 9s. 3d..