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Notes and News

Date: February 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 275

THE year 1921 was one of phenomenally fine weather. A very mild winter was followed by a summer of drought and an autumn almost without gales. In fact, there was no really severe weather until Christmas. The year then went out in storms, and...

Category: Articles

Royal Archer, of Leith

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Soon after 8 P.M. on the 12th June messages were received from the coastguard and the Royal Naval Signal Station that a steamer with 120 passengers on board had been beached one mile west of South Shoebury buoy,...

Small Ads

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

CRUISE THROUGH THE COUNTRYSIDE Aboard our owner operated Hole! Narrowboats on the canals and rivers of England ana Wales. Choose from 21 different routes. Enjoy line food, walking.

car© and comfort. Single/twin/double...

Category: Advertisement

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: January 1867

Volume: 06

Issue: 63

Royal National Life-Boat Institution.

Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

President—THE BIGHT Hon. EARL PERCY, P.G.

THE COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT have to state that, during...

Category: Advertisement

A Royal Air Force Machine

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.

A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.

—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society

Date: July 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 45

THE Twenty-third Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 23rd May, at Willis's Booms, his GRACE THE DUKE OF MARYBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.

The Chairman observed that it had been well...

Category: Meetings

Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: August 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 177

GOBLESTON. — On the 1st January, 1895, the steamers Sent, of London, and Kirkstall, of Shields, which had been detained in the roadstead by stress of weather, ran short of provisions and each sent a boat ashore to obtain supplies. A moderate...

Category: Services

Royal Arch, of Arbroath

Date: February 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 187

ARBROATH.—At about 7 P.M. on the 13th April, while a strong gale was blowing from S.E., the fishing-boat Royal Arch, of Arbroath, was seen attempting to make the harbour. A very heavy sea was running, the tide was low and she was apparently...

Prince of Life-Boats

Date: January 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 442

As briefly reported in the July edition of THE LIFE-BOAT, The Duke of Windsor, who died on 28th May, 1972, was for many years actively associated with the R.N.L.I., especially between 1919 and 1936 when he served as President of the...

Category: Articles

Royal Humane Society Award

Date: March 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 427

On 7th August, 1968, when the Ramsey, Isle of Man, life-boat Thomas Corbett was being launched for publicity purposes the tractor driver, Mr. W.

Collister, who was wearing his life-saving suit, was swept off the tractor...

Category: Awards