LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Help of Navy and Air Force.
The Navy and Air Force have been no less generous. During 1940 the Navy contributed £2099, nearly five times as much as in 1939. The appeal to the Air Force was made in September 1940. Up to the end of February 1941 the contributions...
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Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool
ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 521 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: CLAIRE JUDD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI...
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Kathleen, of Hartlepool
About 7 o'clock on the evening of the 9th October, two guns were fired and rockets thrown up from the Cockle Float- ing light. The night was dark and rainy, with a strong wind and a heavy sea on the beach. The Caister life-boat was...
The Saturday Club
The Saturday Club for deaf and partially hearing children aged 8 to 16, Newport, Isle of Wight, includes many outdoor activities in its programme, and four weeks of special efforts for the RNLI culminated in an exhibition football match... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Mechanic Michael Storey
Coxswain Mechanic Michael Storey of Girvan. Although a relative newcomer to Girvan lifeboat station, Michael Storey is an old hand when it comes to lifeboat services. He joined Humber crew in 1977, serving, with a short break, until 1982.... - View image in PDF
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Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held on the 26th ultimo, and was presided over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that the Fund had continued to...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter from Page 3
branch and guild members have met the challenge with their usual enthusiasm, sheer hard work—and success.
Perhaps the most important statistic of all is the number of lives rescued in the past ten years: almost 12,500. That...
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Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1900
To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 35) £. . d. £.. ,. d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fond.........40 10 - Dnnnett Widows and Orphans Fond.........115 - 1 Reardon Samaritan...
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Janes
IRVINE, AYRSHIRE. — The deputy harbour master, about 10 P.M. on the 2nd February, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat Jane Anne that a vessel was on the beach to the north of the bar showing flares. The crew were summoned, the Life-boat...