CAPTAIN THE HON. SIR ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., D.S.O., died on the 16th of April, 1958, at the age of 73. He first joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1932 and after the second world war rejoined in 1946....
Category: Obituaries
During the year life-boats were launched 1,081 times. Of these launches 640 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war.
The Record Month by Month 1940 January...
Category: Services
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st October, 1954 - 78,940 Notes of the Quarter THE cold, wet summer of 1954 was a most...
Category: Articles
OXE of the notable Life-boat events of 1930 was the great increase in the amount contributed to the Institution by Scotland. In a year in which of the eight districts into which Great Britain and Ireland are divided for the purpose of the...
Category: Donations
About 9.30 P.M.
on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
Following the service by the Swanage life-boat, recorded elsewhere in this issue, the secretary of the Swanage branch received a letter of appreciation, the opening paragraphs of which are quoted below, together with a donation.
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Category: Correspondence
Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.57 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht had run ashore with the ebb tide on the Dike shoal off Ramsgate. At 6.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
St David's ladies' guild held an aide tyme music hall at Warpool Court Hotel on February 1, attended by about 200 people, most of them in splendid period costume. A glittering evening of song, dance and mirth was under the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A gift of gratitude was presented to Ryde station branch by members of 'Ten Mess', HMS Fife. Thirteen years ago Petty Officer Bridle was rescued from a fishing boat accident by the lifeboat and last year he and his shipmates... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Note in background crane which will capsize the Rather for her righting trial and, on her stem, dial to indicate angle of heel when engine shut-down switch operates.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs