BY the death of Dr. C. L. Fraser, of Berwick-on-Tweed, at the end of March, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most valued Station Honorary Secretaries. Dr. Fraser, who was a native of Montrose and was sixty-seven years old, had...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat revisited I read with interest the news article 'Reunited in New Zealand' featured in the Winter 1995/96 issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
The reference to Greymouth caught my eye. This was where my daughter Julie...
Category: Correspondence
MR. J. W. EAGLE, J.P., of Walton and Frinton, MR. P. BRUCE LAURENSON, L.D.S.(Edin.), of Lerwick, and LADY ROWALLAN, of Kilmarnock, have all been accorded the highest distinction which the Royal National Life-boat Institution can confer on an...
Category: Awards
SHORTLY before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of March, 1959, which was Easter Monday, a 30-feet motor fishing boat with three people on board, who were returning from a pleasure trip, capsized at the entrance to Christchurch...
Category: Services
3rd| No- vember. An unsuccessful searcli was made for a coble which had beetf lost together with her crew of two.—• Rewards, £10 14s. 6d. ?'.
THE Institution has received an anony- mous parcel containing twenty-nine gold sovereigns and twenty-four half- sovereigns, packed in cotton wool, many of them with Queen Victoria's head"..
Category: Donations
Captain Sir George Barnard, of Hutton, Essex, who as Deputy Master of Trinity House, was an ex-qfficio member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., is to remain on the Committee..
Category: Committee
BBC Radio Cleveland's Lifeboat 2000 Appeal has now reached the target of €75,000 to purchase an Atlantic 75 class inshore lifeboat for Hartiepool.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fred Park MBE, former Torbay station honorary secretary from 1948 until 1975. Mr Park was also a member of the branch committee until 1995 and was made an honorary life governor in 1975.
Category: Obituaries
Red Bay's C class lifeboat was involved in an unusual incident last Autumn when she was involved in the hunt for four cases of oranges…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs