OF the 157 life-boats in the Institu- tion's active fleet to-day, and the 23 in the reserve fleet, only six have been built out of the general funds of the Institution. The great majority have been provided by private legacies, but there...
Category: Donations
In October, the Largs Lifeboat Fundraising Branch welcomed outgoing RNLI Chair, Charles Hunter-Pease, to speak at their annual lunch where he was presented with a special cake decorated with a model of the Largs lifeboat to mark his...
Category: Articles
• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhos- colyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth be- longed to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
Category: Services
PERSONAL JIGSAW PUZZLES! NEWSPAPER FRONTPAGE JIGSAWS * A unique 400-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring the front page of either The London Times or The New York Times newspapers on a date of your choice.
These jigsaws UK created...
Category: Advertisement
FISHING VESSEL ON FIRE Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 3.0 in the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1947, a message was received from the Wyre Lighthouse that a motor fishing vessel, the Wyvern, of Ramsgate, bound for Fleetwood, was making distress...
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...
Category: Obituaries
Ix a former number of this Journal we have recorded that 36,000 fishing-boats, employ- ing 150,000 men and boys, are annually engaged in the fisheries of the United King- dom. In the April number will be found some statistics of the Herring...
Category: Articles
OFFSHORE cities, each with a population of 30,000 or more, and providing all the facilities and amenities of land-based ones, seem like a fantasy from science fiction, yet they could become a reality in a matter of...
Category: Articles
MR. MOYLE, the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, has sent a very interesting story of help given in an unexpected way by the life-boat's radio-telephony set.
On Sunday, 13th...
Category: Articles