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The Life-Boat Service In 1934

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

The Largest Number of Launches for Fourteen Years.

Nineteen-THIRTY-FOUR, like 1933, will be remembered for its long and brilliant summer. In spite of this it was a year of great life-boat activity. The number of launches...

Category: Articles

The Sapora Elizabeth

Date: February 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 251

A t 11.15 P.M. on the 3rd August a large coble, named the Sapora Elizabeth, of Whitby, and manned by six hands, was in considerable danger of being driven on to a lee shore, owing to a wind suddenly springing up from...

The Winston Churchill

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

IN January, 1948, the latest life-boat provided by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, a 46-feet Watson cabin boat, went to Blyth in Northumberland.

She is one of eight Civil Service motor life-boats now in the fleet. Since...

Category: Inaugurations

40 Years of Service

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...

Category: Committee

On June 22 the North West District of the Boys' Brigade Presented to Blackpool Crew a Cheque for £500 to Go Towards Blackpool Inshore Lifeboat House Frederick Bur

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

On June 22 the North West District of the Boys' Brigade presented to Blackpool crew a cheque for £500 to go towards Blackpool inshore lifeboat house.

Frederick Burton, honorary secretary of the station, is at right... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S. Meath

Date: November 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 166

HOLYHEAD.—The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was called out on service on the 1st February by signals of distress shown by the s.s. Meath, of Sunderland, which had stranded at Penrhyn Point in a strong gale from the W.N.W. and a very heavy sea....

The Corton Lightvessel

Date: November 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 242

During a whole N.E. gale and very heavy sea on the 26th March the Coastguard reported at 6.45 A.M. that the Corton Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were assembled, and the Life-boat, in...

The Busiest Winter for Twenty Years. Medals Won By English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-Boatmen

Date: June 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 326

Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.

THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...

Category: Medals

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck

Date: January 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 31

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

FOUNDED IN 1824.

Supported 'by Voluntary Contributions.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST...

Category: Advertisement

The New Stromness Life-Boat at Guernsey

Date: September 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 295

Left to right: Commander Hairier, Mr. Randell (at the wheel). Commander Drury, the Lieuten nt-Governor. the Bailiff of Guernsey, and Mr. Frampton. In front: Mr. Small.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs