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Dr Muriel Mclean

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

Dr Muriel McLean, a founder member of Croydon branch (set up in 1960) and an active committee member. At the age of 87 Dr McLean was still organising the branch's flag week and indeed stood on the streets collecting money...

Category: Obituaries

None

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Islay, Hebrides. At 11.15 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could be used to collect the ballot boxes used in the General Election from Colonsay Island, as no other boat was...

Happy Return:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Happy return: the Duchess of Kent paid a visit to Torbay lifeboat station on September 24 to see again the lifeboat she officially named 11 years earlier and which has since saved over 200 lives. She is seen here beside Coxswain Arthur... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Monte Gurugu (2)

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.

—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...

A Happy Collector

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

A LADY living in a Suffolk village started to have a collecting boat for the Life-boat Service in May 1945. In Mav of this year she sent back the boat for "the sixth time, with £22 Ss. 7d. in it. Altogether in the three years she...

Category: Donations

Isabella Stuart

Date: November 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 146

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Isabella Stuart, of Ardrossan, bound from the Sound of Mull for Liverpool with larch trees, showed signals of distress, being in a dangerous position about a quarter of a mile E. of the North Pier during a...

Leaf from Lloyd's List

Date: January 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 15

AN interesting tabular return has just been published in Lloyd's List of the casualties to shipping, reported to Lloyd's during, the month of January last. They are thus classified : vessels totally wrecked, 145; part of cargo saved,...

Category: Articles

Grasshopper

Date: November 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 122

At about 10 A.M., on the 7th March, a message from Boarhills reported that a vessel was in a dangerous position about 4 miles east of St. Andrew's. The wind had fallen, but a very heavy sea was still running. The Ladies' Own...

Norwegian Cruising

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Recently my wife and I had the privilege of taking the Norwegian coastal voyage - a round trip from Bergen to Kirknes, near the Russian border with Norway, and back. This was a truly wonderful experience and one that I could recommend to... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None (3)

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Galway Bay - At 7.5 p.m. on nth December, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that an expectant mother needed to be taken to hospital and asked if the life-boat could take her as no other suitable craft wasavailable. The...