The Lizard motor life-boat coming ashore with the crew of the D. L. Harper.. - View image in PDF
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Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
Category: Annual Reports
Mr P. Denham Christie, chairman of the Boat Committee, on behalf of the Institution receives from HRH The Duke of Edinburgh a Design Council Award certificate for the Arun class lifeboat. Facsimiles of the certificate have been sent to each... - View image in PDF
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Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...
The Walmer life-boat standing by the East Goodwin lightvessel in 1961 when she broke adrift in severe weather. The picture was taken next day after the life-boat had been out in the worst conditions the crew could remember.. - View image in PDF
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On the 9th April the small steam-tug the Vixen, of Shields, was ob- served at anchor in a heavy sea from .E.N.E., with a flag of distress flying. The Cromer Lifeboat, the Benjamin Band Cabbett, was launched through a heavy surf to her...
CAPTAIN DONALD H. GIBSONE, D.S.O., R.I.N., who died on 7th April, in his 69th year, had been honorary secretary of the Berwick-on-Tweed station since the end of 1925, and in 1936 was awarded the Institution's inscribed binoculars in...
Category: Obituaries
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FALMOUTH JANUARY 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL. The Falmouth motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare arrived at her station from thebuilding yard on the 7th of January, 1940. Twelve days later, on the 19th, she...