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The Late Mr. Charles Clifford

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

THE gentle CHARLES CLIFFORD, who, after years of severe suffering, passed away a short time since, deserves a few words in service on occasions when life-boats unassisted | the great value of his invention for Lowering " 'The...

Category: Obituaries

Fraserhurgh: When a Job Needs Doing By Georgette Purches

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...

Category: Articles

French Medals for Swanage

Date: September 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 25

On the 3ist, December, 1943, the Swanage life-boat rescued three lives from the French nayal launch "Chasseur 5", which had capsized in a heavy sea when escorting a submarine. The men were clinging to her keel. On July...

Category: Articles

Fundraising

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

For teams of RNLI supporters who were game for an adventure and wanted to help raise funds for the lifeboats, all they needed were some crew and some wheels to take part in the RNLI Lifeboat Challenge.The 2001 North East Lifeboat Challenge...

Category: Articles

News from the Branches

Date: May 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 269

Awards to Honorary Workers.1 DURING February and March the following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in re- cognition of their services in the cause of the Institution :—• To Captain...

Category: Branches

Zetland

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

The 200th anniversary of Henry Greathead's Original, THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1990, aroused considerable interest, and we continue the story of early lifeboats with a brief history of Greathead's only survivor... Zetland Henry...

Category: Articles

Accounts of Services by Life-boats (5)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.

JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....

Category: Services

Double Toil and Trouble

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour

Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...

Category: Articles

Belfast's Life-Boat Fete

Date: September 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 299

FOLLOWING the two balls which were organised by the Belfast Ladies' Lifeboat Guild in the winter and spring, a Fete, lasting a fortnight, was held in June in the Bellevue Gardens, Belfast, which had been kindly lent to the Institution by...

Category: Articles

The Prince of Wales In a Motor Life-Boat

Date: November 1921

Volume: 24

Issue: 274

IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...

Category: Articles