BY the death of Major Ernest Read Cooper, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the llth of February, at the age of 83, the Life-boat Service lost an old and distinguished friend. Born at Blythburgh, Suffolk, in 1865,- he spent the greater part of his...
Category: Obituaries
* 1 £, Enjoy the 4 Star comfort of Malta's Ramla Bay with 3 days FREE car hire included An exclusive cost cutting holiday only from Mercury Direct....
If you dread those cold, grey days, why not escape and give...
Category: Advertisement
A MONTH 4-STAR HOLIDAY THIS WINTER from just £199 pp 4 MALTA • HB upgrade just £28 weekly • 1st child only £149 until Apr ‘08 . Malta, with its sister islands, sits in the heart of the Mediterranean and is blessed with blue...
Category: Advertisement
Irish Division Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were...
Category: Services
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Thomas Cooper, of the Ramsgate life-boat, for saving a yacht and four people at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour. Vellum service certificates have also been...
Category: Services
IT comes daily from all parts of the British Isles, and not a week passes without bringing some gift from over- seas. It comes in all forms, from cheques and postal orders, to boxes of coins and packets of foreign stamps for the Institution...
Category: Donations
4STA& holidays Winter sunshine and 4-star comfort in Malta from just £199 including 3-days FREE car hire Take a break from cold grey days and fly south to the blue skies of sunny Malta.
Stay at the 4-star Ramla Bay...
Category: Advertisement
THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
Was The Queen a pilot boat in Lagos? After World War 2 I went to work in British West Africa and spent the 1950s in Lagos.
The Lagos pilot used an ex-UK lifeboat reputed to have been on the Mersey. As almost all the major... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...