WHEN one has, for fifteen years, held an office that any man must be proud and thankful to occupy, it is not easy to say good-bye. Yet the time has come for my retirement from the post of Secretary of the Institution, and I must take leave...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Michael F. Hardy, of East- bourne.
He was second-coxswain from 1919 to 1924, and since then he has been coxswain, so that he has now been an officer of the life-boat for nearly...
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On the 14th November the brigantine Elizabeth, of Drogheda, when off St. Bee's Head, during a gale of wind and in a very high sea, lost her mainmast, foretopmast, &e., and hoisted a signal of distress, where- upon the Elizabeth...
Medallists all, in order of presentation. In the foreground are Coxswain John King, of Bridlington, and Coxswain Michael Berry, of St Helier, Jersey, both of whom were awarded the silver medal for gallantry.. - View image in PDF
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Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.
The four survivors...
Again, Oh the 31st October, the brigan- tine Noroal, of Seaham, while lying at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, sprang a leak, and the water gained on the vessel so fast that signals of distress were made, where- upon the Caister No. 1 Life-boat...
Still doing good work in retirement: Dowager, ex RNLB Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, when acting as one of the escort boats for the 1977 Gravesend to Greenwich and back sponsored row, organised by Gravesend branch, towed in two boats with... - View image in PDF
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, The'Eight Honourable the EARL OF CREWE, K.G., in the Chair, the...
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FEBRUARY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At six in the evening the harbour master reported to the life-boat station a wireless message from the S.S. Wicklow Head, of Belfast, that she was making for Torbay to land a badly injured man. A local shipping...