Bottom right - Gold medallists unite! - Left to right: Michael Scales (retired St Peter Port coxswain), Brian Bevan (Humber coxswain) and Hewitt Clark (Lerwick coxswain).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St Stephen's Day swim. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
NOVEMBER 22ND. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A motor fishing vessel had been overdue, but after spending the night aground she arrived next morning. - Rewards, £5 19s..
DECEMBER 18TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. An aeroplane’s dinghy had been reported some miles S.W. of the Bishop Rock, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 4s. 6d..
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otmerse— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
The life-boat at St. Andrew's, 1S.B., saved the crew of 4 men of the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, which had stranded off the entrance to the harbour.
ST. AGNES', ISLES OF SCILLY.—At 9 P.M., on the 21st March, signals were seen in St. Mary's Sound. In ten minutes the Life-boat James and Caroline was launched and proceeded to the spot, under sail, through a moderate sea, the wind...
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...
Exmouth, Devon.—At 8.50 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1956, a man rang up to say that he could see a vessel close inshore near the Maer Rocks and that she was sounding her siren. The coastguard reported that the vessel was making a...
May 1983 Hedley V. Miller, QBE, K st j, who had supported the Institution for more than 60 years, for many of them as a member of Plymouth station branch committee..
Category: Obituaries