Honorary Life-Governor Mrs. W. D. Gale has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help she has given to the life-boat service as honorary secretary of the West Cowes ladies' life-boat...
Category: Awards
Salcombe, Devon. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties a mile and a half west of Bolt Head. The life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was...
Relief Arun, at Newhaven, September 7 A weekend of severe gales and storms was followed by a glorious sunny day on Wednesday September 7, 1983, the day on which 52-25, a new 52ft Arun relief lifeboat provided by the trustees of the late L. G...
Category: Inaugurations
BY the death of Mr. Webster Hoare, of St. Albans, on 20th October, the Institution has lost its oldest collector.
Mr. Hoare was nearly 87, and for nearly 30 years had collected for the Institution.
On...
Category: Obituaries
WHEN it is remembered how large an amount of property, and "what numberless human lives have been sacrificed by the loss of vessels during the night, and more espe- cially on the outlying sandbanks and rocks around out own. coasts, it...
Category: Articles
ACKERGILL.—A violent storm arose on the morning of the llth January, the wind blowing from the S.S.E., and as it was feared that the storm would increase, the George and Isabella Life-boat put off to the aid of some herring fishing-boats...
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...
GIRVAN.—On the forenoon of the 6th February the wind commenced, to blow very strongly with blinding showers of snow. Several fishing-boats returned, but six of them were missing and as it was thought that the snowstorm had prevented their...
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