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Walton and Frinton

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX On the 21st December, 1945, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued the crew of five naval ratings of the motor fishing vessel No. 96, and the crew of six naval ratings of the motor fishing vessel No. 611.

Category: Medals

55 Years -- Still Giving

Date: September 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 17

A subscriber in Huddersfield in sending his subscription of £2 writes: "In the year 1889 my father bought us children Mr. Ballantyne's Book 'The Life-boat'. Since then I have never been able to get past a life-boat...

Category: Articles

Charon of Styx

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Flamborough and Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 5.5 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a small yacht was reported to be in difficulties off Flamborough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 5.40 into a moderate south south easterly...

Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

The following retired coxswains have died: Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas served continuously in life-boats from 1919 until his retirement in March, 1967, the last 1 years as coxswain of the Sennen Cove, Cornwall, lifeboat.

Mr...

Category: Obituaries

Ex-Coxswain John Matthews

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

The following retired coxswains have died: Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas served continuously in life-boats from 1919 until his retirement in March, 1967, the last 1 years as coxswain of the Sennen Cove, Cornwall, lifeboat.

Mr...

Category: Obituaries

Life-Boat Museum at Whitby

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

A LIFE-BOAT museum was formally opened at Whitby on the 26th of July, 1958, by Lady Georgiana Starkey, daughter of Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution. Whitby was the last station at which a pulling...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: August 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 201

THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund are to be congratulated on the admirable zeal and praiseworthy enthusiasm with which the local Life- boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have every where, apparently, been...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat Services (From Page 47)

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

(from page 47) east, near gale force 7, the sea moderate; visibility was good.

The honorary medical adviser could not embark as he was already at an emergency, but the injured man had been tended by a member of La Quintals...

Category: Services

Obituaries

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

With deep regret we record the following deaths JUNE 1989: Eric Offer, coxswain/mechanic of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat from 1967 until his death.

Coxswain Offer was awarded a bronze medal in 1969.

JULY 1989:...

Category: Obituaries

Ribhinn Og

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

Shortly before midnight on the 14th February, the Tolsta post office telephoned that two local fishing boats were in distress off Tolsta Head, which is about twenty- two miles by sea north of Stornoway.

A strong west wind...