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Mrs Kate Stoy,

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Mrs Kate Stoy, governor and Lewisham branch committee member for more than 30 years and wife of former branch chairman Fred Stoy. She was awarded the RNLI's silver badge and, as chairman of the local Trefoil Women's Guild, organised...

Category: Obituaries

The S.S. Harvest Queen

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Selsey, Sussex.—During the evening of the 15th November the coastguard reported red flares four miles S.W.

from the look-out. A strong W.S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat...

Doctors In Life-Boats

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

CATASTROPHE comes quickly at sea. On any dark stormy night a doctor's bed- side telephone may ring and the urgent voice of a coastguard may ask for immediate medical assistance to a ship several miles from shore. If he agrees, and the...

Category: Articles

Remembering Mum

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

When fun-loving Judith Lunan suddenly passed away, it was a huge shock to her family. Then they discovered her favourite charity

‘I know Mum would be so pleased that we are doing something positive in her name,’ says Sarah...

Category: Articles

Shoreline

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat which was originally funded by our Shoreline appeal, moved station last year from Blyth, in Northumberland, to Arbroath where, on Saturday April 16, a service of re-dedication was held. It may...

Category: Articles

A Pleasure Boat

Date: November 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 106

HUNSTANTON, NORFOLK. At 4 P.M. ON the 8th August, a pleasure-boat was observed off this port, with masts gone and distress signals flying. The Life-boat was got to sea as soon as possible, and the women and 4 men on board the boat were...

The S.S. Mousse le Moyec

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

DECEMBER 6TH. - CLOVELLY. DEVON.

The S.S. Mousse le Moyec, of Lorient, was in distress, and the life-boat was launched with the help of all the women of the village, but she could not go beyond the race at Hartland Point in...

Three special station birthdays

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

Three lifeboat crews are celebrating proud RNLI histories this year, as Fowey, Fleetwood and The Lizard stations turn 150.

One remarkable rescue for Fowey came in 1865, with 13 people saved from the barque Dryden and 9...

Category: Articles

The New Stromness Motor Life-Boat

Date: September 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 295

ONE of the first Life-boat Stations to be provided with, a Motor Life-boat was Stromness, in the Orkneys. It was in 1903 that a Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat was first converted to motor-power.

This Boat was followed by two...

Category: Inaugurations

The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom

Date: February 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 95

III.—SWANSEA.

The Wolverhampton Life-boat.

THE next Life-boat Station on the south coast of Wales, in rotation after Penarth and Porthcawl, of which we gave an account in our last number (November 2nd,...

Category: Articles