A sense of new beginnings makes Spring a good season for the naming ceremonies of new lifeboats and this year was no exception.
Namings included D class lifeboats for Fowey, Redcar, Clifden, Aldeburgh and the relief fl eet...
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To the foreign honours conferred on the Institution on the occasion of its Centenary has now to be added a silver medal from Greece. On 12th January of this year the Naval A.D.C. to the Greek President wrote : " The President has...
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His Majesty King George the Fifth and President in 1902, His Majesty has has graciously consented to become never ceased to lend his powerful and Patron in succession to His late Majesty, and the Committee feel greatly encouraged by this...
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During a strong southerly gale and heavy sea on the 15th March, signals of distress were seen from a vessel near the Barber Sands, and the Life-boat John Burch was launched and proceeded in the direction of the signals. On reaching the...
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At midnight on the 31st July, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was flashing distress signals about a mile east-south-east of Lowes- toft harbour. There was a light south-...
MAY 30TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At noon the coastguard reported that the naval authorities had asked for help for the motor fishing yawl Golden West, of Wick, which was on Admiralty service, with a crew of three, and had...
Alan Fisher - Skegness Lifeboat Operations Manager Dr Elizabeth Hodges - Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat station Lifeboat Medical Adviser Retirements Alan Faragher - Berwick lifeboat station Chairman Eifion Jones - Moelfre lifeboat station Deputy...
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WHILE the King was afloat in April last j off the Scilly Islands with Mr. Dorrien- ! Smith, the President of the Scilly Isles Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, in the latter's steam- launch, Mr. Dorrien-Smith was...
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by Maggie Murray/Format The five medallists arrive for a photocall at Tower Pier, on the Thames, before the Presentation of Awards at the Royal Festival Hall on 14 May 1991.. - View image in PDF
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MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK THE sighting of a man in distress on Culver Cliff near Minehead, Somerset, on 2nd July, 1972, led to a rescue by the local ILB. He was first seen standing on a small overhanging rock, about 50 feet up, waving a towel....