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Coxswain E. Matthews, of the Lizard, Cornwall

Date: February 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 317

Coxswain Edwin Matthews, of the Lizard, has died at the age of eighty- seven. He became second coxswain in 1867, and coxswain in 1876, retiring in 1900 after thirty-three years as an officer ot the life-boat. During that time the station...

Category: Obituaries

Silver Line & Star of Hope

Date: November 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 312

On the 15th July the local fishing cobles put out early in the morning to haul their crab pots, but were overtaken by bad weather, and all returned to harbour except two, the Silver Line and the Star of Hope. A moderate N. breeze was...

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Poole guild, formed twelve years ago with ten members, now has a membership of 700 and since 1969 it has raised 63,000; the total last year exceeded 15,000. Members of the guild man both a lifeboat caravan on Poole Quay, which took...

Category: Donations

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Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Lerwick, Shetland*. At 1.45 on the after- noon of 27th January, 1961, the Medical Officer of Health for Shetland told the honorary secretary that a woman had been blown over by the wind on Fair Isle and had been badly injured, and that it...

Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1908

Date: February 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 231

lives 1908. Launching. saved.

Jan. 1. 10. - a.m. Schooner William Thompson, of Wexford. Rosslare Harbour Life- boat rendered assistance.

„ 6. 8.40 a.m. Smack Young Bert,, of Lowestoft. Kessingland No. 1...

Category: Services

A Washington Aircraft (3)

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.

Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...

New Ways of Raising Money

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

The Lyme Regis flag week coincided with the World Cup. One of the attractions zuas a stall on the front selling souvenirs. But fearing a diminished attendance during the game, the local organiser telephoned the B.B.C. at Bristol to obtain...

Category: Donations

The Restoration of the Apparently Drowned

Date: July 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 53

UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...

Category: Articles

The Royal Bank of Scotland

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

We're not asking you to risk your life in Force 9 gales. Or to be on call, day and night. Or even to devote time to training. We are asking for something equally important, though: put pen to paper, below, and take out a Lifeboats...

Category: Advertisement

Guiding Hand on Fire North East of Ramsgate

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Guiding Hand on fire north east of Ramsgate.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs