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Percy and Elizabeth Blunden

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Percy and Elizabeth Blunden opened their garden to the public at Keepers Cottage, Lindfield, West Sussex, last July. It was a beautiful day and their magnificent garden was looking its best for the 597 people who came to enjoy it and the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Freda and True Love

Date: September 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 311

n the fishing cobles went to sea at about 5.45 A.M. on 15th March the weather was misty with a strong swell running.

With the flowing tide the sea increased until, at 8.30 A.M., it was decided to launch the Pulling and...

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: February 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 227

Thursday, 10th October, 1907.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

Category: Committee

Victory, Violet and Laurel

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

Three local fishing boats, Victory, Violet, and Laurel were caught in a S.E. gale on the 24th December. The regular life-boat crew was out fishing, with the exception of the second coxswain, but a " scratch " crew were got together...

Past and Present

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

25 Years Ago Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham-St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a...

Category: Articles

Past and Present

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...

Category: Articles

Our Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: February 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 183

THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund have now completed their first year of work and are issuing their first Annual Report. We have read it with much interest and are satisfied that its contents will afford eminent...

Category: Articles

And They're Off!

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

The BT Global Challenge got off to a somewhat choppy start in Southampton on 29 September 1996.

Toshiba Wave Warrior can be seen in the centre of the above photograph accompanied by Calshot's Brede class lifeboat,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Past and Present

Date: Spring 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 524

40 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1953 In an issue which reports the capsize of a modern fast lifeboat it is interesting to read the remarks of the then Chief Inspector of Lifeboats onthesubjectofself-righting and the design of lifeboats...

Category: Articles

Moneta and Other Yachts

Date: Spring 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 354

Newhaven, Sussex. — At five in the afternoon, on the 27th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a Brighton police report that a yacht was in dis- tress one mile off Saltdean. At 5.12 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...