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First Prize for Sheffield Schoolgirl

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

ELIZABETH LAVINIA MAXFIELD, of North and South Anston County Pri- mary School, North Anston, Sheffield, won first prize in the competition for the best essay on the life-boat service organized by the Institution.

The...

Category: Articles

Augusta, of Bristol

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Augusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of Bristol" j...

Keel Boats

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

RETURNED SAFELY At 8.45 a.m. on 3rd June, 1964, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar and that four local fishing boats were still at sea. At 9 a.m. the lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was...

Hands Up!

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Hands up! The Western Pioneers Show Team, a group of disabled and able-bodied people from West Wickhurn, 'held up' customers in aid of the RNLl. During a countrywide promotion each Texaco garage adopted a local charitv for three davs... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (4)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

APRIL 20TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

An aeroplane was thought to have crashed into the sea, but it was found that she came down on land.-Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 6s..

Tocoba

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

EMPTY YACHT TOWED TO QUAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th June, 1962, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken adrift from her moorings at Knott End and was being carried out across...

Below: the Wheelhouse Has a Wealth of Navigation Aids - This Is the Starboard Control Position.

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

Below: The Wheelhouse Has A Wealth Of Navigation Aids - This Is The Starboard Control Position.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Life-Boat Carriages

Date: July 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 21

A MOST important adjunct to a coast life- boat is a carriage. It is not sufficient that the boat herself be of a superior description, capable of contending safely and successfully with that element in which her work has to be performed,...

Category: Articles

"Life-Boat Saturday" Help! Help!

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

ERE long around our island home Tempestuous winds shall blow; Ships safe to-day, far, far away May then to pieces go.

Would yon one seaman should perish, On rock or Goodwin Sand, For lack of a "Royal" Life-boat,...

Category: Poetry

An Aeroplane (131)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

SEPTEMBER 24TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A British bomber aeroplane had been reported approaching land with her petrol nearly exhausted, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 9s. 6d..