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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM GRIMES, on his retirement, after serving for 16 years as coxswain of the Wells life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, and a pension.
To ROLAND HAYTER, on his retirement, after serving for 14f years...
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The Four-Masted Iron Ship Mersey
WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....
New Members of the Committee of Management
SIR Charles Baring, Bt, Colonel F. F.
B. St. George, C.V.O., and Mr. Norman E. Wales have joined the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Sir Charles Baring is the son of Sir Godfrey Baring who...
Category: Committee
H.M.S. Cheerful
Cromer, Norfolk.—Oil the 30th of May, 1953,H.M.S. Cheerful, which was paying an official visit to Cromer, had several guests on board, including the Chairman of the Cromer Urban Dis- trict Council and the life-boat honorary secretary. The...
Through the worst
Dunbar’s lifeboat and crew took a hammering on their way to saving two lives in May – would their resilience win the day?
Jonas and Ingrid Åkerblom had built the yacht Ouhm themselves. They planned to take...
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Your Letters
A letter from The Queen Mother Brian Miles. RNLI Director for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1998.
HM The Queen Mother wrote to Brian in October to offer her best wishes and congratulations on a job well...
Category: Correspondence
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An American Steamer Broken In Two
The Bessemer City on the Cornish rocks. - View image in PDF
(See page 226.). - View image in PDF
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Guatemala
BROADSTAIRS.—In reply to signal guns from the light-ship, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was launched at 8.55 P.M.
on the 30th June. When about half way to the Goodwin Sands, she was taken in tow by the steam-tug...