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Bertha

Date: May 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 120

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The Life-boat Albert Edward put off at about 5.30 P.M. on the 6th January, in reply to signals of distress from the Swin Middle Lightship. The wind was blowing a gale from the E., and the sea was very heavy. On reaching the...

Health & Home Shopping

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

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Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: February 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 297

Mr. Loris N. PARKEK has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of his generous and valuable services to the Life-boat Cause in writing for the Institution the Life-boat play " Their Business in Great...

Category: Awards

A Dinghy (3)

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of June, 1957, a message was received from a man living in Penmon that his twelve-year-old sonwas drifting in a dinghy out towards Penmon Point. At 12.30 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs....

Mr John D Russell

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

Mr. John D. Russell, the senior partner of Binder, Hamlyn & Co. (Chartered Accountants), who died in January, joined the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution in 1954, and was elected a vice president in...

Category: Obituaries

Jolly Girls

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

DECEMBER 2ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 5.15 P .M.

message was received from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had been mined three-quarters of a mile east of Tynemouth Piers. A light westerly breeze was...

Linnet

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 8.40 on the evening of the 25th of September, 1960, a lady informed the honorary sec- retary that her husband had put out in his yacht Linnet at 10.30 that morningintending to cruise for ten miles, and that he...

A Pram Dinghy

Date: Summer 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 489

Blown offshore AT MERSEA ISLAND in the early evening of Sunday September 11, 1983, although the water was smooth off Cooper's Beach, a north-easterly near gale, force 7, was blowing off the shore and the tide was ebbing. At 1724 Thames...

Purple Heather

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 23RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 7 P.M. the coastguard reported the motor trawler Purple Heather, of Lowestoft, ashore at Corton. The weather was very cold and foggy, with a heavy ground swell and a southwesterly breeze....

Jessie Sinclair

Date: February 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 247

Shortly after 1 A.M. on the 17th July signals of distress were seen about half a mile to the north of the harbour, and in response the Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched. She found the schooner Jessie Sinclair of Port St. Mary, with four...