St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 12.40 a.m. on ist January, 1966, the area commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade informed the honorary secretary that a doctor on Sark requested the lifeboat's assistance in transporting a sick child...
THE new life-boat house at Lytham-St.
Anne's was opened by the Mayor of Lytham-St. Anne's, Councillor N. S.
Utley, on Sunday, the 26th of June, 1960. The ceremony followed the tradi- tional...
Category: Inaugurations
A gold medal for conspicuous gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay with the crew who sailed with him in storm force winds on Monday December 6, 1976, to the rescue of the crew of MV Lyrma. (/. to r.) Crew Member John Dew, Second... - View image in PDF
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THE Institution took a small stall at the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition which was held during the first week of January. On the opening day it also had the use of a stall called King Arthur's Table, which was given, without charge, to a...
Category: Articles
Mr Ron Shardlow, honorary secretary of Keswick branch from 1979 to 1988..
Category: Obituaries
Those in the know describe scuba diving as entering an awe-inspiring and beautiful 'other' world. Unfortunately that experience can all too quickly change to nightmare.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
NORTH DEAL. — Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel while a whole gale from the S.W. was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 11th February, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 10.15 P...
PETERHEAD.—On the morning of the 9th January, a mounted messenger gave information at the Life-boat Station that a vessel was ashore on Scotstown Head, about five or six miles N. of Peterhead.
The Life-boat temporarily...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the crew of seven of the German yacht Das Wappen von Bremen, were rescued by the life-boat.—Rewards: Vellum and monetary awards amounting to £20 10*. 2d., together with a letter to the Board...
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals