Longhope, Orkneys 16th March.
A trawler was wrecked at Hoy Island, but the Stromness life-boat rescued the crew.—Rewards, £11 6s. 6d.
(An account of the rescue is on the next page.).
THE Institution has received a gift of £43 5s. from the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. It was the result of an auction on board the Warwick Castle of a cigarette-tin engraved by the captain..
Category: Donations
Margate, Kent.—24th October, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea, but it was reported later that it was a false alarm.
—Rewards, £18 12s..
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Norwegian girl, who read an article about the Life-boat Service in the March number of English Illustrated, has written to say she wants to know more about the Service and hopes she will find a girl pen-friend interested...
Category: Correspondence
Ex-Coxswain Thomas H. Bloom, who served as an officer of the Walton and Frinton life-boat for 31 years, is dead. He won a silver and two bronze medals in the course of his life-boat career..
Category: Obituaries
This photograph of the life-boat stationed at 1'Ile de Sein appeared in the March issue of the review " Realites " following an article on the boat by M Raymond Levard and is reproduced by kind permission of the Societe... - View image in PDF
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EDITH. LADY BIRD, O.B.E., died on the 1st June, 1961. She joined the Com- mittee of the Central London Branch of the Ladies Life-boat Guild in 1933, was Deputy Chairman in 1948 and Chairman from 1957 to 1959.
She was...
Category: Obituaries
The chief helmsman of St Abbs' lifeboat.
Alastair Crowe (left) receives a cheque for £41.385 from Douglas Cameron, broadcaster with LBC Radio, the result of an appeal arranged via LBC and Marinecall to fund new... - View image in PDF
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Seasick baby Donaghadee lifeboat's open day was interrupted this summer by an unusual emergency. The lifeboat took a paramedic and a doctor to assist a baby who was suffering from severe seasickness. The mother and baby were taken tack...
Enthusiastic golfers in Wales raised £2,500 towards an inshore lifeboat at Flint.
Heavy showers were not enough to dampen the spirits of the 20 teams competing at Northop country park. The whole event, organised by... - View image in PDF
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