LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., President of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
From Photograph by Messrs. Russell tc Sons, London H.R.H. The PRINCE of WALES has always taken a keen interest in the Institution and in its work. He succeeded his Royal Father the Prince Consort as Vice- Patron in February, 1863, and has...
Category: Drawings
C.E. 100
FISHING BOAT OVERDUE Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.55 a.m.
on I4th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Portstewart fishing boat was two hours overdue.
There was a choppy sea with...
A Boat
Three men were rescued on the 12th January in a strong southerly gale by the Life-boat Sarah Brooshfft, Kirk Ella, after having passed the night on a beacon on a rock upwards of three miles from the shore.
It appeared that...
Fiery X
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the police at Worthing had reported a small sailing dinghy in difficulties one mile off Goring. At 2.50 the...
An Aeroplane
JANUARY 8TH - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was picked up by another vessel. - Rewards, £17 19s.
Vision
Six fishermen saved from stranded vessel in heavy seas The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Coxswain Robert Duffy of Howth lifeboat following a service to a fishing boat in Force 7 winds and heavy seas. The deputy...
Guillemot
AUGUST 3lST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At 10 P.M. lamp signals were seen from a position two miles E.S.E. of Small Saltee Island, and the motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 11.15 P.M.
A...
Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling
BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...
Category: Obituaries
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HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—On the llth February a man and his wife, walking from the mainland to Hilbre Island, were overtaken by a very heavy snowstorm, and as they had not returned, and it was doubtful whether they would have reached the island...
Bazar
MONTROSE.—During a moderate breeze from the E.S.E. on the 12th January, the brig Bazar, of Oscarshamn, laden with pit props for the Tyne, was seen off Montrose, steering northwards, trying to clear the land, but evidently becoming embayed....