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Dr Muriel Mclean

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

Dr Muriel McLean, a founder member of Croydon branch (set up in 1960) and an active committee member. At the age of 87 Dr McLean was still organising the branch's flag week and indeed stood on the streets collecting money...

Category: Obituaries

D Class

Date: Spring 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 564

D cla_. - View image in PDF

Peterborough Beer Festival 'It's a well-chosen boat for the area, with people getting cut off by the tide on the offshore rocks.'. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mrs Barbara Harding,

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Mrs Barbara Harding, honorary life governor since 1984. Mrs Harding was honorary secretary and souvenir secretary of the Seaton and Beer branch and was awarded the silver badge in 1972 and the gold badge in 1977..

Category: Obituaries

An Aeroplane (20)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SEPT. 18TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard as her services were not needed. - Rewards, £12 5s..

Tamars Safely Home

Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

The first of the RNLI's newTamar class all weather lifeboats to be placed on operational service have safely arrived at Tenby, Pembrokeshire (below), and Peterhead, Grampian, and the third is completing her trials for service at... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None (4)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

FEBRUARY 5 T H . - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. The life-boat took a doctor to Aberdour. This service was the last of several unusual services carried out by the life-boat over a period of several days.

For details, see...

A Motor Boat (2)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

DECEMBER 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor boat had been seen drifting, but the life-boat was recalled, and the steamer which had first reported it said later that there was no sign of life on the drifting boat. - Rewards, £4 2s..

An Aeroplane (152)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

OCTOBER 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and a search was made, during an air raid alarm, but nothing was found. The honorary secretary, Commander W. Highfield, O.B.E., R.N.,...

Life-Boat Days.

Date: December 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 2

Of 507 Life-boat flag days of which the results have been received, 350 have raised larger sums than ever before. In Greater London half a million more people contributed than in 1939, and the sum raised was £12,528. That is £3,860...

Category: Articles

From Two East Londons.

Date: December 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 6

On the same day the Institution received two gifts, each of two guineas, from masonic lodges. One gift had travelled a few miles, from East London, the other 6,000 miles, from East London in South Africa..

Category: Articles