LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford
Miss ALICE SUSANNA MARSHALL died at Oxford on the 2nd of January, 1951, at over 90 years of age. She had been one of the most distinguished of the honor- ary secretaries of financial branches, and gave the Institution her enthusiastic and...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
Mr. FRANCIS LE BOULANGER, honorary secretary of the Mumbles branch, has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services which he has rendered to the...
Category: Awards
Lyra
HAUXLEY.—The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 14th February to the assistance of the fishing coble Lyra, of Newbiggin, which was in distress in a gale from the W.S.W.
and a heavy sea. The boat...
Lieutenant-Commander J a Douglas MBE RN Chief Inspector of HM Coastguard Receiving from the Duke of Kent President of the RNLI the Institution's Gold
Lieutenant-Commander J A Douglas MBE RN Chief Inspector Of HM Coastguard Receiving From The Duke Of Kent President Of The RNLI The Institution's Gold. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Drig
Walmer. Kent. — At 6.58 on the evening- of the 1st of July, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned that three people in a dinghy could be seen wav- ing a flag on a stick in Pegwell Bay.
At 7.3 the life-boat Charles Dibdin...
The Passenger Liner Venus
LINER GROUNDED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 7.10 a.m. on 23td May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the passenger liner Venus of Bergen had gone aground off the Herd Sand Groyne, but no help had been requested. The life...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Cover nor.
Mr. CHARLES J. SHARP, J.P., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution and has been presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent,...
Category: Awards
The RNLI and us
Mayday, our national fundraising event, really seemed to capture the hearts of RNLI supporters – including some household names. Here’s why they pulled on yellow wellies to show their RNLI support …
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Category: Articles
Elizabeth Anne and a Schooner
MOELFBE, ANGLESEY.—On the 12th February a very heavy gale from the S.
by W. was experienced, and a large fleet of steamers and sailing craft took refuge in the bay. The storm increased in fury, and the schooner Elizabeth...
A Fishing Boat
At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken by a sudden rising of the...