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Mrs. Bella Mattison,

Date: April 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 435

Mrs. Bella Mattison, the famous Cullercoats fishwife, who raised more than £8,000 for the R.N.L.I.j died in early January at the age of 92.She started collecting for the life-boat service in 1922. Mrs. Mattison, who left 10...

Category: Obituaries

Life-Boat Workers of Surrey

Date: July 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 440

Top: Presentation of ILB at Reigate and Redhill Branch life-boat evening by Mr. G. A. Hodgkins, vice-president, Reigate Sea Cadets, the boat being stationed at Humbermouth, Yorks. (From leftto right): Commander J. D. Walters, R.N. (retd.);... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Anabisi

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.20 p.m. on 3rd September, 1965, the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a north-westerly wind of gale force and a rough sea to go to the assistance of a motor vessel whose engine had broken down five miles...

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Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Galway Bay - At 9.15 p.m. on loth July, 1966, the life-boat was requested to convey a seriously ill man to hospital on the mainland. At 10 o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched in a westerly breeze and smooth sea. It...

A Royal Reception

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...

Category: Meetings

Cove and Kilcreggan Branch Flower Show

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

Finishing touches being made to the exhibits at Cove and Kilcreggan branch flower show. It is an annual event and is growing in popularity and size all the time. Last year's show, which was opened by the Reverend C. K. O. Spence,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lofthouse's Fisherman's Friend

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

Lofthouse's Fisherman's Friend launched a new fund raising promotion aboard the lifeboat at the Show. Pictured are Mrs Doreen Lotthouse (centre) with her husband Tony and members of the family company and Mrs Alison Saunders (right)... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Under Starter's Orders

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

Pictured at the start of the race are, standing left to right: Mr R. Vivian May, a member of the fund raising committee and deputy president of Bridport branch, the director and Mrs Joan Best, president of Beaminster branch. Kneeling left to... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Dry Run for a Lifeboat!

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

Dry run for a lifeboat! Members of Ramsey rugby club, along with other RNLI supporters from the Abbey Hotel, set off to pull a D class lifeboat through the town centre on Ramsey branch flag day. The treasurer, Jim Holloway, was kept busy all... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Jim Turreff,

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Jim Turreff, crew member and emergency mechanic at Alderney lifeboat station was recently awarded the City and Guilds Bronze Medal for excellence for the 2440 Marine Craft Competences Part two - the only student in the UK and Ireland to... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs