The Province of Northern Ireland improved its fund-raising in 1975 by 21 per cent; a sterling achievement in difficult times. The voluntary workers of Belfast raised no less than £11,000.
London flag day, Tuesday March...
Category: Donations
THE Institution very much regrets the death of Lieut.-Co'l. H. W. Madoc, C.B.E., M.V.O., for twenty-three years honorary secretary of the Douglas, Isle of Man, life-boat station; Mr. John Prior, for twenty-five years secretary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Eric Offer, coxswain/mechanic of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat from 1967 until his death.
Coxswain Offer was awarded a bronze medal in 1969..
Category: Obituaries
April 1996 Jane Cookson, treasurer of Morpeth guild. Jane joined the committee in 1974 and became treasurer in 1976, a position she held until her death. Jane was awarded the Silver badge in 1991..
Category: Obituaries
FEBRUARY 1998 Charles Henry 'Bill' Harvey, committee member since 1987 and chairman of the Back of the Wight branch from 1990 until his death..
Category: Obituaries
BROUGHTY FERRY, N.B.—It was reported, about 5 P.M. on the 4th March, that a schooner had gone ashore on the Lady Bank, and when she could 'be seen through the snow and drift, which was only at intervals, she appeared to be partially...
Launches 61. Lives rescued 79.
DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which...
Category: Services
At 6.20 in the morning of the 15th November signals of distress were seen from a schooner riding in Ramsey Bay. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched in the teeth of a S.E. gale and a terrible sea and proceeded to the vessel, which proved...
MONTROSE and ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—On the afternoon of the 23rd March, the brig Die Manten, of Arendal, Norway, bound thence to Leith with a cargo of pit props, arrived off Lunan Bay. The captain and 2 men put off from the vessel in a boat to try...
NEWBIGGIN.—At about 5 P.M. on, the 14th October the ss. Northumberland, of Newcastle, ran into the bay for shelter during a very severe storm and very high sea. In reply to signals of distress shown by her the Life-boat William Hop- Teinson...