LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post,
(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post, outside Botchins the butchers in St John's Wood; now 80 years old, she has collected regularly since I960 and this year she brought in £26.49 in spile of biting winds. But... - View image in PDF
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Floran
Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 8.20 on the evening of the llth of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Turnberry lighthouse-keeper had reported that an auxiliary yacht had stopped, but was using a small sail between...
Barrule
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.40 in the morning on the 1 st of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned a report received from Seaforth Radio that a motor vessel was disabled and drifting three miles north of Skerries. She was the Barrule, of...
Obituary of the Years of the War, 1939 to 1945
DURING the war over 200 honorary workers and friends of the Institution died. Among them were three members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, killed in an aeroplane accident on active service, H.R.H....
Category: Obituaries
Margaret, of Lancaster
On the 31st January the brigantine Margaret, of Lancaster, was driven on Dungarvan Bar during a heavy south- easterly gale. The Life-boat went off to her, but could only get within two hun- dred yards of her, for the sea on the bar was so...
Automatic Lights to Be Fitted on Life-Jackets
THE Institution has decided to fit Aqualite L.20 automatic lights on all life-jackets in use in the service.
Trials of this lighting device have been carried out at twelve life-boat stations since April, 1960. The lights...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Spidola
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 14th of February, 1948, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore in a thick fog to the south-east of the South Stack Light- house, and at 8.32 the motor life-boat A.E.D. was...
The S.S. Stassa, of Panama
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, and Life-boat 70-002 - At 5.20 a.m. on 15th July, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore at Renish point off Rodel. The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at 5.50 in a moderate variable wind and a...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
Patrons His Majesty the King,
Her Majesty the Queen
Her Majesty Queen...
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Below) Hubert Petit Coxswain of St.Peter Port from 1948 to 1964 Was Awarded Both the Knli's Gold Medal and the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Lifeboat Institution F
(Below) Hubert Petit, coxswain of St Peter Port from 1948 to 1964, was awarded both the KNLI's gold medal and the gold medal of the Norwegian Lifeboat Institution for the service to Johan Collett in 1963. With deep regret we announce his... - View image in PDF
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