LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli News
£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...
Category: Articles
Mrs Catherine Patterson Vice-President of Anstruther Ladies' Guild and Coxswain Peter Murray Handover a Cheque for £4700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council the Money Was Rai
Mrs Catherine Patterson, vice-president of Anstruther ladies' guild, and Coxswain Peter Murray handover a cheque for £4,700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council. The money was raised at Anstruther's gala day when a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wedding Donations
When Douglas and Pamela Smith, owners of the Stromness Hotel in Stromness. got married in November they decided to hold the reception in their own hotel! Already having a plentiful supply of 'candlewick bedspreads, toasters and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pioneer (1)
OCT. 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
Early in the morning the assistant harbour master saw distress signals coming from the bay. A strong E.S.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat John and Charles...
Obituary
As we go to press we regret to record the death of Major-General Sir COLERIDGE | GROVE, K.C.B., a member of the Committee of Management since 1916, who died on Monday, the 21st May, at eighty years of age. Sir Coleridge Grove had a long and...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. C. Stacey Hall, of Bournemouth
Mr. Charles Stacey Hall, F.C.I.S., for twenty-eight years Assistant Town Clerk to the Bournemouth Corporation, who died on 14th August, at the age of sixty-four, had been for thirty- three years associated with the Institu- tion's work...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winterton
Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winter- ton, Norfolk, who died on llth January last, at the age of sixty-five, joined the Life-boat Crew at Winterton, Norfolk, in 1884, when he was eighteen years old.
He was appointed Second...
Category: Obituaries
Colonel J. Benskin
COLONEL JOSEPH BENSKIN, D.S.O., O.B.E., died on the 14th of July, 1953.
He had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management since 1929 and a Vice-President since 1948. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee in...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. B. J. Kirkham, of New Brighton
Mr. Benjamin James Kirkham, of New Brighton, who died on 9th January, at the age of seventy-four, was one of the oldest and most valued of the Institution's honorary workers.
He had been associated with it for some...
Category: Obituaries
Waldemar Peter
GERMAN GRATITUDE Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.30 p.m. on 4th December, 1964, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, told the honorary secretary that the German cargo vessel Waldemar Peter had on board a sick man who needed medical...