LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE 37th Annual Meeting of the [ Committee of this Fund was held on the 18th ultimo, the Chair being occupied by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary Secretary, stated that the Fund had fully maintained...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Lady Grey
The same Life-boat was launched five days later in conjunction with her consort, the Robert and Mary Ellis, to the help of the s.s. Lady Grey of West Hartlepool, which had stranded on Whitby Bocks about half a mile from the West Pier head....
Liberty
Kirkcudbright. At 11.10 on the night of the 28th December, 1961, the bow- man told the honorary secretary that the local motor fishing vessel Liberty was on the rocks at Ross Island with engine trouble. She had one man...
Buckingham (2)
Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.
—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...
Crab Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 2.6 p.m.
on 8th April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that four Sheringham crab boats were at sea in a very thick fog and might have difficulty in finding the passage back to the...
Willowpool (2)
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles N.E...
Taki
TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 12.17 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in bad weather west of the Barmouth bar....
Amor
During a strong gale from the S.W., on the morning of the 1st De- cember, signal-guns were fired from the Gull Light Ship. The Aid steam-tug and the- Bradford life-boat were immediately got ready, and in the course of twenty mi- nutes...
A Windfall
THE Institution has received, under the will of a civil servant of London, a legacy of ten guineas. The will was made in 1916, but the legacy to the Institution was contained in a codicil dated 7th December, 1929. That day was the height...
Category: Donations
"Private benevolence, energy, and zeal."
The following paragraph first appeared in THE TIMES on 20th February, 1866.
It was printed again in THE TIMES on i$th February, 1966: (Royal National Life-boat Institution) Nothing, in fact, that the Government could do...
Category: Articles