By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He...
Category: Obituaries
Corporate fundraising When would you think of all these things together: a car, a train, a cruise ship, a bank and a shop? Are they perhaps all the items you need for a perfect holiday? In fact they are all things that the RNLI corporate...
Category: Articles
SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...
Category: Services
Support our volunteer crews It was an excellent idea to enclose the two eye catching Support our volunteer crews window stickers with the Spring 2003 issue of the Lifeboat.
Until a few years ago we used to have Support the...
Category: Correspondence
FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...
Category: Articles
MV Lovat sinks ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Penlee lifeboat at 0637 that MV Lovat had broadcast a mayday call and that her crew were abandoning ship.
The reported position...
Lloyd's List and Shipping Gazette has just published as a pamphlet the logs kept by the Master and Chief Officer of the Trevessa, during the voyages of the two boats of that vessel after she sank in the Indian Ocean, on 4th June last.<...
Category: Articles
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—A terrific gale from the N.W. blew during Sunday night, October 6, at Peel, and on the west coast of the Isle of Man, accompanied by heavy torrents of rain. At Peel the full fary of the gale was felt with exceptional force...
In the month of March the following excellent services were also rendered by the Caister small Life-boat, the Boys:— "While on a voyage from Newcastle to Dublin, the schooner Punch, of Carnarvon, was wrecked on the Barber Sands, off...
.—On the after- noon of the 6th December, information was received here that a large vessel was in a very perilous position in the bay, and the life-boat Richard Lewis, at Penzance, was at once got in readiness, in case her services should...