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Day Star

Date: November 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 146

SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...

Harbour Day

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Tynemouth MP, Alan Campbell, paid tribute to the dedication and bravery of lifeboat crews in his opening speech at Cullercoats harbour day.

This traditional event, held in July, proved to be a great success and raised in... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Dancing Day

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

Loughton and district branch had the help of Chingford Morris dancers for the highlight of its recent lifeboat week.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Rug Making In Aid of the Institution

Date: December 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 308

THE Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Cobham, Surrey, Miss Margaret Power, has very kindly -offered, in addition to the work which she is doing for the Branch, to make woollen hearth- rugs and slip-mats in aid of the Institu- tion's...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago

Date: November 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 296

Gold Medallion Awarded for a Service on the Northumbrian Coast.

" Newton-by-the-Sea, " Tuesday, 2nd December, 1828.

" SIR,—It is with the deepest regret I have to communicate to you the...

Category: Correspondence

Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1961 has been won by Coxswain John Stonehouse of Teesmouth for the rescue of the crew of three of the yacht Sybil Kathleen on the 1st...

Category: Awards

Lady Ernestine

Date: February 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 143

THORPENESS, SUFFOLK.—The Life-boat Ipswich put off at 1 A.M. on the 4th November, flares having been shown by a vessel during a gale from the S.S.W. and a heavy sea, and brought safely ashore the crew consisting of six men, of the schooner...

Lady Havelock

Date: February 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 107

KESSINGLAND.—On the 30th November, at 11 o'clock in the morning, a brig named the Lady Havelock, bound from Sunderland to Jersey, with a cargo of coal, was observed to be making for the inner passage, inside the Barnard Sand, but. the...

Lady Morris

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—On the evening of the 15th April one of the most exciting scenes ever remembered was witnessed at Whitby. The fishing fleet had left port early in the morning, the weather then being generally favourable.

Lady Mary

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 5.53 P.M. on the 7th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that a barge lying about two miles south of Walton Pier was flying a distress signal. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rather rough sea....