The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. — At 10.50 on the morning of the 6th of April, 1951, the Trinity House Super- intendent asked if the life-boat could be launched to land a sick man from the Scarweather lightvessel. No other boat was available,...
SICK SEAMAN RUSHED TO HOSPITAL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 4.3 a.m. on Sunday the 14th of July, 1963, the Gorleston coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Liberian steam ship Archandros had a sick...
Princess Alexandra meets the Margate lifeboat crew in the company of the Chairman Michael Vernon. A proud day for all concerned - especially as the Princess had been prevented from naming the Margate lifeboat on a previous occasion planned... - View image in PDF
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STEAMERS IN COLLISION IN FOG The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 9.25 in the morning of the 16th of August, 1947, the Mablethorpe coastguard re- ported that the.S.S. Keila, of Glasgow, had been in collision in a fog with the S.S. Lady Anstruther...
— On the 24th January, the schooner Denbighsliire Lass, of Beaumaris, showed a signal of dis- tress in Porthdinllaen Bay, and the life- boat Cotton Sheppard was launched about 5.30 P.M., in a terrific gale from the S.W., with very heavy...
Mr. John Nott, M.P. for St. Ives, has received a letter from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Harold Lever, stating that the service rewards made to members of life-boats crews will continue to be subject to income...
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IN 1922 we published a letter from a gentleman on the Gold Coast asking for the Institution's catalogue and samples, as we had been recommended to him as a firm " for goods and provisions." Our inability to supply a catalogue...
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LANDED SICK MAN At 6.15 p.m. the following day a superintendent of Trinity House requested that a sick man be landed from Gorton lightvessel. The man needed medical attention and no other suitable boat was available. It was nearly low...
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
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eAN interesting ceremony took place on Wednesday, October 16th, in St. Mary's Girls' School, Woolwich, the occasion being the award of the Challenge Shield for London in connection with the recent essay competition on the "...
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