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Lifeboat revisited I read with interest the news article 'Reunited in New Zealand' featured in the Winter 1995/96 issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
The reference to Greymouth caught my eye. This was where my daughter Julie...
Category: Correspondence
The Naming of the 37Ft 6In Rother Lifeboat Rnlb Princess of Wales By Hrh the Princess of Wales
THE FRESHLY PAINTED and polished 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat to be named Princess of Wales sparkled against a backdrop of gentle mountains, their tops dusted with a light covering of snow.
The low winter sun's reflection...
Category: Inaugurations
The Norwegian Merchant Vessel Lysfoss
oom Tobermory lifeboat crew took a leading role in a major environmental operation after a cargo ship ran aground on 7 May. The stricken vessel could clearly be seen from the lifeboat station, firmly wedged onto rocks just a 10-minute...
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1937
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 25th May. The amount raised was £5,323, an increase of £276 on 1936.
Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Branches
Yla Section
THE Y.L.A., with a growing membership of 7,000, continues to recruit members and with the yachting season in full swing it is hoped that members will do their utmost to recruit yet more names to the books.
By joining the...
Category: Articles
Century Life-Boat Day In London
CENTURY Life-boat Day was held on 20th May, in nearly eighty of the main boroughs and urban districts of Greater London, and the Institution had the generous help of both the Duke and Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life...
Category: Articles
The Late Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N.
WE record, with great regret, the death on 20th September, at the age of eighty-one, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., late chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Holmes was a Norfolk man, hailing from Morning- thorpe Manor House, Long...
Category: Obituaries
Hawa-Dilli
STEAMER PASSENGER SPOTS FLARES Rhyl, Flintshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passenger on board the steamer St. Tudno of Liverpool had reported seeing red flares six to...
Boy George
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 14th of September.
1957, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half south-east of Southwold harbour. The life-boat...
Shoreline
BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...
Category: Articles