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Naming Ceremonies In Ireland

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

FOUR life-boats were named in Ireland in August and September, 1950, at Donaghadee, Clogher Head, Baltimore and Arranmore.

Donaghadee The new Donaghadee life-boat has been built out of a gift from Lady Kelly, of...

Category: Inaugurations

New handbook for enthusiasts

Date: 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 616 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2016

The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook 2016 is now out. This complete guide to RNLI lifeboats past and present details every lifeboat in our fleet, plus the post-service names and locations of retired vessels. To order your copy, send a...

Category: Articles

Silver Medal Awarded to Hampshire Cafe Proprietor

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

SHORTLY before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of March, 1959, which was Easter Monday, a 30-feet motor fishing boat with three people on board, who were returning from a pleasure trip, capsized at the entrance to Christchurch...

Category: Services

A Hint to Sailors. A Remarkable Bequest By a Military Pensioner

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

serving of record and worthy of imitation, has been recently made known to the public through the newspapers of the day :— At a meeting of the weekly board of the Gene- ral Hospital at Nottingham, on the 19th May,...

Category: Articles

Rescue from Trawler Aground Near Eilmore

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

About 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 19th of December, 1957, the lights of a vessel passing between the two Saltee islands off the Wexford coast were seen from Kilmore Quay.

It was a wild night, and as the coast is a...

Category: Services

Scotia

Date: August 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 241

On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E. and blew a gale, which...

Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc

Date: April 1854

Volume: 01

Issue: 12

THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK have voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instrumental in saving lives during the year...

Category: Medals

Epworth Ladies' Guild's

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Cold and foggy weather in Humberside failed to deter supporters from Epworth ladies' guild's third threshing day in late December, 1984.

The event, inspired by a desire to preserve old farming methods, was hosted by... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Contrast

Date: October 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 42

IT is a lovely morning in July, the morning after the Royal St. George's Regatta.

Kingstown Harbour is bright and beautiful with the taper masts and snowy canvas of a whole fleet of yachts. An " ocean race"...

Category: Articles

Medals for Gallantry

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

SILVER and bronze medals for gallantry have been awarded at the Humber, Whitby, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight), Clacton-on-Sea, Blackpool, Lytham St.

Annes, Dover, Broughty Ferry, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Salcombe, Torbay,...

Category: Medals