FEBRUARY 1989: Miss E. Nairn, honorary secretary and treasurer of Nairn Ladies' Guild from 1979 to 1985. From 1985 to 1986 she was the honorary secretary and was then souvenir secretary. Miss Nairn represented Nairn on the executive...
Category: Obituaries
Took line to survivor MR DOUGLAS GiBBiN of the Hartlepool Co. Durham, inshore lifeboat, as reported on page 16, was awarded the bronze medal of the RNLI for the part he played in saving the life of a 16-year-oldboy from...
RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat funded by our Shoreline members which was stationed at Blyth from 1979 until last year, has now been transferred to Arbroath, on the east coast of Scotland; she was placed on service at...
Category: Articles
Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was showing two red lights about four miles north-north-east of Margate Pier.
At 4.30 he reported that she was...
POINT OF AYR.—The dandy Thomas Stratton, of Maldon, bound from Swansea for Mostyn, laden with burnt ore, stranded on the West Hoyle Bank in a strong breeze from N.W., and a choppy, breaking sea on the 23rd July. She commenced to leak, and...
Launches 29. Lives rescued 9.
JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch...
Category: Services
Despite force 8 gales which made their stock difficult to keep on thetable, the ladies of Ramsey's, IsleofMan, lifeboat guild made £90"at their street fair stall of souvenirs. Many people were attracted towards them by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£22,000 from an Anonymous Donor.
A BANKNOTE for £1,000 sent in a regis- tered envelope with the message " One thousand pounds enclosed for the National Life-boat Institution," and then, underneath, "...
Category: Donations
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning- of the 1 st of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Gunfleet Sands to the east-south-east of the coastguard station. At 11.25 the life-boat...
OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.
They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...
Category: Articles