LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishwives of Cullercoats. Over £500 Collected In Five Years
THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...
Category: Articles
Whitby's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat the White Rose of Yorkshire
Whitby's 44ft Waveney lifeboat The White Rose of Yorkshire at sea for the Tyne Tees TV current affairs programme 'Briefing' on the amalgamated Tyne Tees Coastguard area. The programme was screened during the first week in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One of the Highlights of the Splendid 150th Anniversary Banquet In the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College Greenwich on October 11 1974 Was a Piccolo Solo By Ban
One of the highlights of the splendid 150th anniversary banquet in the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on October 11, 1974, was a piccolo solo by Band Corporal R. O.
Howgill, Royal Marines. The Duke of... - View image in PDF
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Congratulations to Irish Mechanic
A special letter of congratulation has been sent to Mechanic William Sliney of Ballycotton and extra monetary awards made to all the members of the Ballycotton crew for an attempted service carried out in exceptionally bad...
Category: Services
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 8. Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury and District Branch
MAJOR ARTHUR THOMAS FISHER founded the Salisbury Branch of the Institution in 1910, has been its Honorary Secretary ever since, and is still its Honorary Secretary at the great age of eighty.
Born on May Day in 1843, he is...
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Four of the Programme Sellers at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball Held By the Central London Committee at the Dorchester Hotel Last November: (I to R) Julia Kerr Lul
Four of the programme sellers at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball held by the Central London Committee at the Dorchester Hotel last November: (I. to r.) Julia Kerr, Lula Wellard, Vanessa Bellamy and Jasmine Taylor. Such was the advertising... - View image in PDF
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The Motor Fishing Vessels Ros Beara and Saint Martin
ON SERVICE FOR THIRTEEN HOURS At 5.18 a.m. on the 26th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Ros Beara was asking for immediate assistance as something had fouled her propeller and she...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1898
His GRACE THE DUKE or LEEDS IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF LEEDS.
Seconded by Colonel SAUNDER- SON, M.P.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and circulated, and...
Category: Meetings
Century Life-Boat Day In London
CENTURY Life-boat Day was held on 20th May, in nearly eighty of the main boroughs and urban districts of Greater London, and the Institution had the generous help of both the Duke and Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life...
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Children from the Class of Mrs Harrison at Bodmin County Primary Infants' School Acted Out the Grace Darling Story
Children from the class of Mrs Harrison at Bodmin County Primary Infants' School acted out the Grace Darling story for the rest of the school and, after making a "mile of pennies", they collected over £52 the Grace Darling... - View image in PDF
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