13th September 1949
Medals for a brave lifeboat crew
After a fruitless eight-hour search for a downed French military aircraft, the crew of the Jersey lifeboat was heading back to shore when it received a call from a stranded yacht. The Maurice Georges was trapped in the rocks of Demie De Pas, south of St Helier, with a crew of four aboard.
Despite already having been out for so long, the lifeboat motored to her aid and, at considerable risk to themselves, coxswain Thomas King and his crew rescued the stranded sailors and brought them safely back to shore.
King was awarded a gold medal and the rest of his crew received bronze medals for their service.
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Sportsman and soldier Robert Copland-Crawford is born
- Born in Elizabeth Castle in 1852, Robert Erskine Wade Copland-Crawford was destined to be notable for several reasons, not all of them good.
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Vickers Viscount aircraft crashes at Jersey Airport
- A Vickers Viscount aircraft with 74 passengers and crew crashed on landing at Jersey Airport when the front wheel retracted.
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Soldier is killed picking flowers from a train
- A soldier was killed on the Jersey Railway when he attempted to pick line-side flowers from a moving train.
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The first Branchage film festival opens
- Jersey’s first ever Branchage film festival opened with a screening of Man on Wire, the James Marsh-directed documentary, in 2008.
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