CONSIDERING what a vast amount of wealth has been every year engulfed beneath the waves since mankind engaged in commerce by sea, it is matter for astonishment that so little has been attempted in an organized and scientific manner for the...
Category: Articles
AT their Meeting last May the Committee of Management passed the following resolution:—'' That Life-boat Stations be presented with a Vellum on completion of a hundred years, this Vellum to be hung in the Town Hall or other public...
Category: Articles
AEBEOATH, FOBFARSHIEE.—On the 15th January the fishing-boat Jessie and Mary, of Arbroath, was observed, about two miles distant from the shore, making for the harbour, and as the sea was heavy it was evident that she would encounter...
At about 7.45 P.M. on the 20th -May two of H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyers, the Oherwell and Ettrick, when near the Barber Sand steaming northward, ran aground. The weather was moderate, but the ships being unable to get clear fired signals for...
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
Category: Advertisement
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1938.
£ s. d, 36 12 0 ••M MMBHI KHB B H Subscriptions, Donations, and Lifeboat Days.
40 16 0 «M_-__H__ — —»—•...
Category: Accounts
H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...
Category: Medals
Triumphant Julie Davidson receives her •crown from Filey's Coxswain Frank Jenkinson.
Her title, Filey Lifeboat Queen 1983-4, is contested each year in aid of the station.
Gordon Warley, of Primrose... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Regarding the photograph on page 11 of the Spring 2002 issue of the Lifeboat, showing the crew of the Charles Biggs lifeboat, there are two errors in the caption. They are the crew of the Lytham lifeboat: the St Annes boat Laura Jane was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., Chairman of organizathe Committee of Management, and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, have each been presented by H.M. the King of Norway with the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Life-boat Society...
Category: Awards