The Committee of Management also deeply regret the loss of another col- league, General Sir Charles Monro, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I., who became a member of the Committee of Manage- ment in 1921. Two years later he was appointed...
Category: Obituaries
Margate, Kent.—31st May. A motor boat was wrecked in shallow water, but her crew waded ashore.—Rewards, £13 8s..
Walmer, Kent.—6th November. A fishing boat had been reported missing, but she got in without help.—Rewards, £30 16s. Qd..
DEC. 17TH. - HYTHE, KENT. A vessel had been reported attacked by enemy aircraft, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £45 5s. 6d..
JUNE 17TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Parachutes had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £17 3s. 6d..
WHEN the wrath of the tempest bursts over the deep, And the woe-laden winds from their fastnesses sweep, And revel and shriek in their terrible glee, As they whirl o'er the breast of the pitiless sea: When the foam-crested billows surge...
Category: Poetry
IT is with the greatest regret that we have to record the death of Mr. H.
Fineham, I.S.O., who was Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund from February 1906 to June 1914. Mr. Fincham, who was inspired with...
Category: Obituaries
READERS of The Lifeboat know that oil has on various occasions been used with great effect in calming the rough water round a shipwrecked vessel. A paper on its value was read by the Chief Inspector of Life-boats at the International...
Category: Articles
A total of 400 RNLI lottery tickets sold by one person is a record set by Stuart Maggs of Hythe branch. Well done Mr Maggs—but are there any challengers? How about individual flag day collectors? Roger Cope, a member of Birmingham branch...
Category: Donations
It is not often that loss of life has to be recorded in con- nection with shipwrecks on the Good- win Sands, so well organised is the Life- boat service in the neighbourhood, but unfortunately the loss of the ketch Yulan, of Harwich, during...