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Leo

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

OCTOBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 4.25 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a red flare near Scotstoun Head had been reported from Rattray. Half an hour later it was reported that six red flares...

Fishing Cobles (1)

Date: February 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 211

CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Thirteen fishing-coble? were endeavour-ing to return home while a heavy sea was breaking on the bar on the 8th April.

As they would incur considerable risk in crossing, the Life-boat...

Theda

Date: February 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 171

FLEETWOOD.—The schooner Theda, of Carnarvon, bound from Hamburg for Glasson Dock, stranded on the North edge of Sundeiland Bank during hazy weather on the 17th November, and at 11.45 A.M. showed signals of distress.

The...

Instead of Flowers

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

CAPTAIN S. E. FOSTER, R.N., who for several years was honorary secretary of the Ryde, Isle of Wight, station, died last August. Knowing his interest in the life-boat service his family, in the announcement of his death, asked that gifts...

Category: Donations

Life-Boat Christmas Card

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

The picture above is for the Life-boat Christmas card, 1950. It is a famous rescue of seventy years ago. The Ramsgate life-boat is going out to the help of the barque Indian Chief, wrecked on the Long Sand on January 5th,...

Category: Advertisement

A French Schooner Goeland

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

On the 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was in distress in a strong gale, with a very heavy sea, and the motor life-boat Prince David rescued the crew of six.—Rewards, silver medal, bronze medals, thanks of the...

Life-Boat Days In 1936

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

DURING 1936 life-boat flag days were held by 766 of the 1,071 branches of the Institution; nine fewer than in 1935. The amount collected on these days was £42,715, which was £375 less than in 1935. The number of people who...

Category: Articles

None (18)

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

MATERNITY CASE At 5.10 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretary that there was an expectant mother who needed to be transferred to hospital at South Uist. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at 5.45...

Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

THE photograph shows Coxswain Harold Parkinson, of Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. He became coxswain in April, 1959, and was awarded the Institution's bronze medal in 1962 for the rescue of the four members of a yacht's crew. He... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Maritime Exhibition:

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

Maritime exhibition: the loan exhibition, Rule Britannia, at Sotheby's ran for the whole of January, was visited by thousands of people and raised over £10,000 for the RNLI.

It included items from over 150... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs