To WILLIAM WATTS WILLIAMS, on his retirement, after serving for 19| years as coxswain of the St. David's life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To MATTHEW LETHBBIDGE,...
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from page 19 modern lifeboat engines, so that they will continue to operate normally after a capsize. Access is by watertight hatches and ample ventilation trunks keep the engine room unusually cool; these trunks go right down to the bottom...
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To WILLIAM MILLER, on his retirement, after serving 26 years as Coxswain of the Eyemouth Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To ALFRED BINDING, on his retirement, after serving 24 years as Coxswain of the...
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TtrE day is spent ; the ied sun sinks Beneath the Western wave; The light bark gaily holds her course With her crew so stout and brave.
A few short hours, and all is changed; For loudly howls the Wast, And o'er the...
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The Life- boat James Stevens No. 13 performed an excellent service on the 14th April.
At 5.30 in the morning a message was received that a vessel was on the rocks at Westhaven, Carnoustie. With all haste the Life-boat...
FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...
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JANUARY 20TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A heavy easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and violent squalls of hail and snow, and the life-boat coxswain and motor-mechanic had been on the alert for some time when, at 1.2...
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
THE rescue from the Greek motor vessel Nafsiporos, in which fifteen men were saved by the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats, will probably long be recalled as one of the great achievements in the life-boat service.
Coxswain...
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