Holy Island, Northumberland.—31st October, 1939. An observation balloon was seen floating in the sea, but it was picked up by a fishing coble.—Rewards, £7 15s. 6d..
THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...
FEBRUARY 22ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Morse signals thought to be an S.O.S. had been reported, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £11 10s..
MARCH 15TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND.
NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.30 in the morning, the motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched in a strong east-south-easterly wind, with a moderate sea, to go to the Inner Farne Lighthouse where three...
JUNE 23RD. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.
On the afternoon of the 23rd June the local doctor asked for the life-boat to convey a woman with acute appendicitis to Oban. A light N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm, but no...
APRIL 2 3RD. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A small boat had been reported by an aeroplane to be in distress, but it was found to be a false alarm. - Rewards £5 9s.
Model register Thank you for printing my letter in the Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT under the heading of Model Register.
The response to my letter has meant that we now have sufficient numbers to form a group of lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1929.
£ s. d.
42 0 0 ™" — ™""" «™—-« ~ Construction and Repair of Life-boats,...
Category: Accounts
There will be no life-boat Christmas card this year, but the life-boat calendar for 1941 is now ready. It has a reproduction in colours of a painting of a war service. The cost u I/-., including the envelope, or 12 for 10/-., and it can be...
Category: Articles
THE ninety-fourth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 26th April, 1918, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
H. H. Asquith, KG., M.P., presided, and...
Category: Meetings