LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Henry Watson, J.P., of Anstruther
MB. HENRY WATSON, J.P., of Anstru- ther, Fifeshire, died on 12th August, less than a month after he had resigned, on account of ill-health, his position of Joint Honorary Secretary of the Station which he had held with his partner of the...
Category: Obituaries
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
FOE the sixth year running the fishwives of CuIIercoats have held their collection for the Institution on the occasion of the August road exercise and Launch I of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay, and | although, for the first time, they have...
Category: Articles
Fedora
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the morning of the 31st January the Italian steamer Fedora, of Genoa, and the Russian steamer Pravda were in collision in a position reported to be about fourteen miles from...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
The Screw Steamship Ingerid
The service of the same Life-boat on the 20th January, is thus reported in The East Anglian Daily Times :— "Those who were on Harwich pier between nine and ten on the morning of the 21st January, will not readily forget the scene...
Sand Runner (1)
LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....
An Aeroplane (7)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Birthday Honours
The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours: Privy Counsellor Mr. James H. Hoy, D.L., M.P. for the Leith Division of Edinburgh since 1950.
R.N.L.I. Committee of Management...
Category: Awards
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a repro- duction in colour of the picture on this page. It is a photograph of the 45' 6" Penlee life-boat W.
and S....
Category: Advertisement
Lifeguards award
The Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award 2010 will be presented to Jamie Rowlands and Andy Waterfield of Polzeath Beach, Cornwall, for rescuing two surfers on 29 October.
In a demonstration of seamanship worthy of an...
Category: Articles