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Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Winter 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 471

Fund-raising branches and guilds throughout the country had very good results last year. Dundee branch increased its total by nearly 50 per cent to reach £15,800. the ladies' guild contributing £8,000 towards this sum; the...

Category: Donations

The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 232

LIST [OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1908) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal life-saving.

Category: Awards

The S.S. Hawthorn

Date: February 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 309

At 1.15 in the afternoon of 5th January, when a whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with rain and a heavy sea, the Coxswain noticed that the s.s. Hawthorn, of Liverpool, which was at anchor in Ramsey Bay, was signalling that a doctor was wanted...

Freesia, of Grimsby

Date: February 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 275

Motor Life-boat.

ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from...

and Model Making: (Above) a Model of the 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat John Fison Stationed

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

. . . and model making: (above) a model of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat John Fison stationed at Harwich. This model, made by Rodnev Morlock, an Enthusiast from Felixstowe, is scratch built but using a pre-cast GRP hull.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

County of Cork

Date: November 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 202

MOELFEE, ANGLESEA.—About 10 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd March, while a strong breeze was blowing from S.E. accompanied by a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the schooner County of Cork, of Amlwch, bound from Liverpool...

The French Lugger La Maria Francois

Date: October 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 58

At daybreak on the 29th January, the French lugger La Maria Franyois, Le Pere Samson, was observed in a perilous position in St. Austell's Bay, with a flag of distress flying, the wind blowing a gale from S. by W. The Fowey life-boat was...

The Admiralty Tanker Wave Victor (2)

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

Ilfracombe, and Appledore, Devon; and Minehead, Somerset.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1954, the Admiralty tanker Wave Victor, which had fifty-five people on board, wirelessed that fire had broken out in her engine-room...

News from the Branches. 1st August to 31st October, 1934

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

1st August to 31st October, 1934.

Greater London.

CLAPHAM.—Whist drive.

HAYES.—Annual meeting on 25th Octo- ber. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Amount collected in 1934...

Category: Branches

In 1923 the Prince Gave His Permission for All Life-Boat Days to Be Known As Prince of Wales Day'

Date: January 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 442

'In 1923 . . . the Prince gave his permission for all life-boat days to be known as Prince of Wales Day.'. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs