LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Grace Darling's Niece
IT was announced in the Press on 15th April that Mrs. Grace Stokoe, the niece of Grace Darling, had just died at Newcastle. She was the daughter of Robert Darling, of Alnwick, and to her had been left, among other relics, Grace Darling's...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to the following, on their retire- ment :— RICHARD C. JENKINSON, 20J years coxswain and 7f years...
Category: Awards
Fig 1(Above):
Fig 1 (above): The second prototype FSB is turned . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kindly Light and Mercury
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 27th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that anxiety was felt for the safety of two local boats which had taken parties of visitors to the...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE of WALES, K.G.
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES
H.R.H. THE DUKE of EDINBURGH,...
Category: Advertisement
Nanteos
LITTLEHAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Two schooners were at anchor in St. Bride's Bay, "while a gale of wind was blowing from the S. on the 25th January. It was thought advisable to warn the crew of the Life-boat Friend, to be in readiness...
Margaret (1)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—On the 1st February, at 10.40 p.m., during a fresh breeze from S.E., signals were fired from the Gull Lightship. On the Lifeboat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeding to her, it was ascertained that a large flare...
Friargate
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 12.16 early on the morning of the llth of February, 1955, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Friargate, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had run on the rocks at Flam- borough Head...
The U.S. Steamer Western Farmer Broke In Two After a Collision
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Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremony at Troon
THE naming ceremony took place at Troon, Ayrshire, on 5th October, 1968, of 44-007 Connel Elizabeth Cargill which was provided by a gift from W. A.
Cargill Charitable Trust. Mrs. Connel Leggett, of Edinburgh, eldest grand-...
Category: Inaugurations