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Outrageous Grace

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

Outrageous Grace
Taking the long way home

By John Otterbacher
Review by
Michael Masters

Outrageous Grace tells the true story of the author’s struggle against death – and...

Category: Articles

M.V. Andoni (1)

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

Tow by tug IN VERY BAD WEATHER on the evening of Thursday December 9, 1982, the 500 ton coaster MV Andoni suffered engine failure and anchored 2Vz miles south of Shoreham Harbour. She was seen by Coxswain Kenneth Everard of Shoreham Harbour...

A Bishop's Interest

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

AN exercise of the life-boat at Barra Island was held in November, 1951, during a visit to the island of the Bishop of Argyll and Isles. This was his first trip in a life-boat.

The bishop had been very anxious to make it,...

Category: Articles

Christmas Cards and Calendars

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.

It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...

Category: Advertisement

Obituary

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Commander Alphonsus J. O'B. Twohig, K.M., M. Inst. T., A.R.I.N.A. died on 3ist July, 1967, at the age of 73. From February, 1951, to February, 1961, Commander Twohig was honourary treasurer of the Dublin branch of the R.N.L.I. He was...

Category: Obituaries

Unflagging Support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (R)

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

Unflagging support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (r) hand a cheque for £225 to Falmouth harbour master and lifeboat honorary secretary, Captain David Banks.

Their Platinum II Roadshow had raised the money... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mrs Osman Gabriel

Date: Autumn 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 450

It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...

Category: Obituaries

Stowmarket and Needham Market Branch

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

Suitable arrangements: just one of the 20 displays at the Festival of Howers organised by Stowmarket and Needham Market branch with the help of Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft lifeboat stations. The festival was a four-day event and as... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Two Aeroplanes (1)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

AUGUST 27TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.

Two aeroplanes had collided and fallen in Blackpool, and two airmen had been seen to fall into the sea, but nothing could be found. After the return of the life-boat a party of...

Four Gifts.

Date: September 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 1

A woman in Leeds has given to the Life-boat Service her first week's old age pension. A London mother has sent it a pound in gratitude for the safe journey of her children across the sea. A boy in Ilford has sent it half-a-ctovm which he...

Category: Articles