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Legacy Lifeline

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

ifeline Legacies are a vital element of the RNLI's funding, particularly for long-term capital expenditure. With signs of a decline in this source of income we examine the ways in which a legacy can indeed offer a lifeline to casualties...

Category: Donations

Harwich:

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Harwich: At 0630 on the morning of Friday June 8, 1984, Harwich's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, John Fison, slipped her moorings to go to the aid of the 107ft schooner, Stina. Returning to Maldon from Amsterdam with nine people on board,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Dinghy (1)

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AS SPEEDBOAT TOWS DINGHY Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three men in a 14-foot dinghy were signalling for help half a mile east...

Lifting Craft No. 17

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

SEPTEMBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

At 3 P.M. the naval authorities asked for the life-boat to be launched as lifting craft No. 17 had broken loose from moorings at the mouth of the harbour, where she was being used on...

A Rowing Boat (4)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

NOVEMBER 28TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. About two in the afternoon, four boys put out duck-shooting in a rowing boat.

By seven o’clock they had not returned. The night was very dark, and a strong southwesterly breeze was...

Sarah Ann

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Holy Island, Northumberland. At five o'clock on the morning of the llth of May, 1959, the skiff Sarah Ann left harbour to fish for crabs and lobsters.

By 10.30 all the local fishing boats with the exception of...

Thanks—And a Cheque

Date: December 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 426

The following letter, extracts of which are published here, was received in September, 1968, from Raymond Baxter, formerly Director of Motoring Publicity, The British Motor Corporation Ltd., and well-known television com- mentator, enclosing...

Category: Articles

Sethon

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.35 on the morn- ing of the 1st of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Sethon, of Fleet- wood, was ashore on the Black Rocks in Islay Sound. The life-boat Char- lotte Elizabeth put out...

Queensferry- Scotland Division

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

Queensferry's Atlantic 21 lifeboat station is another which is easily found by reference to a famous structure, as clearly shown on the left! The station itself is at the very bottom of the photo, at the landward end of the pier to the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Civil Service Life-Boat Fund

Date: February 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 211

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