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Windsor Lad II

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 31st of May, 1954, the weatherworsened while fishing cobles were at sea, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched. A strong breeze was blow- ing from the...

Photographic Competition

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

THE first prizes in the Institution's photographic competition, the terms of which were announced in the September 1961 number of the Life- boat, have been awarded to :— MR. A. E. TURNER, honorary treasurer of the New Romney and Romney...

Category: Articles

This Remarkable Picture By Peter Foskett

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

This remarkable picture by Peter Foskett aboard the Lowestoft lifeboat gives some idea of the atrocious conditions during the service.

Red House Lugger can seen in the lee of the ferry Norkin while Aldeburgh's Mersey... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Dunkirk

Date: September 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 1

Nineteen life-boats of the Institution formed part of the "fantastic armada" of little boats which evacuated the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. These life-boats brought off from the beaches thousands of men. All the life-boats were...

Category: Articles

Mr. J. M. Mawso, J.P., of Barrow

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

By the death of Mr. J. M. Mawson, J.P., of Barrow-in-Furness, on 20th November, at the age of seventy-five, the Institution has lost one of the oldest of its honorary secretaries of life-boat stations. He was appointed honorary secretary in...

Category: Obituaries

James Bryce Allan

Date: September 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 393

Mr. James Bryce Allan, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1930, died on the 12th of May, 1960. He had served on the Construction and General Purposes Committees of the Institution.

Mr. Allan was a...

Category: Obituaries

Seamist

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

Damaged steering YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station at 0236 on Monday May 3, 1982, that the yacht Seamist of Rhu had sustained damage to her steering gear two hours earlier on...

Pagasitikos

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

— At 8.50 A.M.

on the 30th January, the coastguard reported that a large steamer was aground on the Newcome Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross put out at 9 A.M. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was...

Wild Goose

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 11.30 on the night of the 4th of September, 1959 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been seen between two and three miles west-south-west of Towyn. At 11.45 the life-boat...

Cardiff Queen

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Ilfracombe, Devon - On 30th July, 1966, the life-boat Lloyd's II was afloat at Combe Martin in connection with the local life-boat flag day. After she left Combe Martin Bay at 8.30 p.m. the pleasure steamer Cardiff Queen was seen about...