LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...
Category: Services
District Conferences. Greater London
Greater London.
THE Annual Conference of Branches in Greater London was held on 9th October, at the City Hall, Westminster. Dele- gates were present from twenty-one Branches and nine Ladies' Life-boat Guilds, and were...
Category: Meetings
Star
The schooner Star, of St. Agnes, in attempting to come into Hayle, during a strong wind from the N.E. and a heavy sea, on, the 8th December, struck and grounded west of the bar. The Life-boat Isis quickly proceeded to her, and took off her...
Mrs Joan Mant
Mrs Joan Mant, vice chairman of Bath Ladies' Guild since 1980 and a very longstanding member of the committee.
Category: Obituaries
Unsung Heroes
Mary Jacinta Casey
How did you first get involved with the RNLI? When I was growing up, we always had a collection box in our pub, and I used to help count the money!
What does being an RNLI...
Category: Articles
Right: a Narrow Aisle 9M Up. Some Warehouse Staff Received Abseiling Training
Right: A narrow aisle 9m up. Some warehouse staff received abseiling training - Billy Bugden, Ray Honeybun, Oave Arthurs, Gary Sadler, Dave Laws and Bob Doak. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Georgia and the S.S. St. Helena
Ramsgate, Kent.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 8th of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned to say that the Panamanian tanker Georgia had been in collision with the S.S. St.
Helena in fog 23 miles...
Football
THE annual match for the Baring Cup was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 20th January, on the ground once again kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co., Ltd., of Charlton, Kent. The result was a win...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-second Annual Meeting of this philanthropic Institution, which is supported entirely by voluntary contributions to assist destitute persons cast away upon our coasts, was held on the 26th May last at the Mansion House, the Right...
Category: Meetings
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Youghal, Co. Cork—22nd February.
What had looked like floating wreckage was found to be a drifting tree.— Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..