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Lifeboats In Action

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

THE LIFEBOAT Mersey Class lifeboat ON 1183 Lil Cunningham Built: 1W2 Cost: C650.000 Funding: A generous gift Irom Miit Salty Cunningham of Derby in memory of her sister D class lifeboat D-485 Stafford with Rugtlty Built: 1995 Cost. ni.OOO...

Category: Services

A Motor Life-Boat Achievement

Date: February 1917

Volume: 23

Issue: 262

THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...

Category: Services

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Life-Boat Regulations

Date: April 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 40

THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...

Category: Articles

F. Edwards

Date: February 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 111

On the 14th November, at 4.30 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat was launched, in reply to signals of distress, shown in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. She sailed towards the sand, and met a boat containing 5 men, the crew of the schooner F....

A Lorry Load of Luck!

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Les Dennis draws the winning tickets under the watchful eye of the deputy head of fundraising and marketing Anthony Oliver.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Award to Master of Steamer

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation has awarded a binocular glass to Captain Donald Joseph MacNeil of Glasgow, master of the coastal tank steamer B.P. Distributor, for skill and seamanship in rescuing six members of the crew of the...

Category: Awards

Miss Jane Leresche, of Seaford

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

Miss Jane Leresche, who died in October, 1937, had been the honorary secretary of the Seaford branch for nearly ten years, and before that the assistant honorary secretary for over four years. During her honorary sec- retaryship the branch...

Category: Obituaries

Excel

Date: November 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 292

On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.

That night nine Life-boats...

Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

COXSWAIN HAROLD COYDE, of the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent. A member of the crew since 1953, he was second coxswain from October, 1960, to April, 1961, when he was appointed coxswain. In 1964 he was awarded a silver medal for...

Category: Articles

Notes and News

Date: December 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 280

By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

This present number of The Life-Boat, the 280th, is the last but one which will be published in the first century of the Institution's history. When the text...

Category: Articles