.—On the : evening of the 30th January, at about 8 P.M., a large vessel was observed to have 1 struck on the Parthingwy Rocks, near Moelfre. The Lady Vivian Life-boat, which had been sent to that station only a few weeks previously, was...
Dewi Rowlands, a launcher at St David's from 1942 and head launcher since 1963, is the third generation of his family to serve this lifeboat station.
When he retired in January, they had, between them, spanned the 97...
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Skegness: A Balcar 105 helicopter was seen to crash into the sea, five miles east south east of Skegness, on the afternoon of Tuesday July 24, 1984. At 1306 Skegness's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat launched from the beach manned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Volunteer action awards TJie Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards are recognised as one of the UK's most prestigious community award schemes.
Fundraising and operational volunteers with the RNLI are eligible for the awards...
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H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER named the new Ramsgate life-boat Michael and Lily Davis on the llth of June, 1954. A certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of a life- boat station at Ramsgate...
Category: Inaugurations
AT 9.26 on the night of the 21st of October, 1955, the Southend coxswain, Sidney Page, learnt from the coast- guard that the S.S. Cardiff brook had wirelessed that she had seen a ship aground one mile north-north-west of the North-East Mouse...
Category: Services
100 Years Ago The following three items were first published in the journals of February. Mav and Aueust. 1885.CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen...
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THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the Chairman :— 1.—That the following noblemen and gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide last page for...
Category: Meetings
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 4.15 A.M. on the 16th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head. A light N.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea, and there was a thick fog. The motor...
Whltehills, Banffshlre.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the life-boat's second coxswain report- ed that he had seen a fishing vessel some three miles from Whitebills apparently out of control and drifting to the shore...