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The S.S. Libra

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At eleven o'clock on thenight of the 8th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.

Libra, of Stockholm, had asked for a boat to land a sick man. No other suitable boat...

Exmouth: (above) Souvenir programmes, and a bouquet, are presented to HRH the Duke and Duchess of Kent

Date: Summer 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 489

Exmouth: (above) Souvenir programmes, and a bouquet, are presented to TRH The Duke and Duchess of Kent. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Grace Darling

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

THROUGH the generous gift of Lady John Joicey-Cecil the Royal National Life-boat Institution has lately come into the possession of a very precious relic connected with our Island story, and one singularly appropriate to the humane and...

Category: Articles

£1,617 from the Austin Motor Company.

Date: March 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 15

Since March 1942 the Austin Motor Company has given the Life-boat Service £1617. 6s. It gives one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it builds for ships' life-boats, and so far these engines have brought the...

Category: Articles

Diver Boy

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Newhaven, Sussex - At 4.40 p.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard in-formed the honorary secretary that two red flares had been reported seven to 10 miles off Seaford Head. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.50 in a gentle...

For Practical Experience a Community Service: Two Apprentices of the Training Workshops at Ici Fibres Pontypool Phil Oakley (Left) and Roy Robinson Undertook As Their

Date: Autumn 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 454

For practical experience, a community service: Two apprentices of the Training Workshops at ICI Fibres, Pontypool, Phil Oakley (left) and Roy Robinson, undertook as their project the viring-up and commissioning of the electrical I... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Minnie Flossie, of Bideford

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

OCTOBER 24TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 6.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that distress signals had been seen from the auxiliary ketch Minnie Flossie, of Bideford, which had dragged her anchor and was drifting...

Naming Ceremony at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

LADY MOTTISTONE named a new motor life-boat at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 5th September. The new boat is of the 46-feet Watson cabin type de- scribed on page 194. She is the first motor life-boat to be built with Diesel instead of petrol...

Category: Inaugurations

Our Confidence and other Fishing Boats

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—About 12.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of Nov- ember, 1949, information was received that three local fishing vessels were at sea and that the weather was worsen- ing. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield,...

A Royal Inspection: on Board With Her Majesty (I to R) Lieut-Commander Harry Teare Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats (Ne) Hrh the Duke of Edinburgh (Hidden) Ca

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

A royal inspection: on board with Her Majesty (I. to r.), Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (hidden), Captain Alexander Kirk, Hartlepool honorary secretary, Commander Bruce Cairns... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs