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Interests of Enthusiasts Embrace

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

Interests of Enthusiasts embrace . . . lifeboat history: Zetland, the oldest lifeboat in existence, built by Henry Greathead in 1800 and now housed in the Zetland Lifeboat Museum, Redcar.. . . the technical development of new lifeboats:... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

J. B. Kee

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

On the 5th of November, 1957, the New Brighton life-boat rescued the crew of six of the coaster J. B. Kee. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain George Stonall was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry, see page...

Lady Ann, of Derby

Date: February 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 317

LADY AXN, J.P., of Derby, who died on 17th January, at the age of eighty, had been a very great friend of the life-boat service for many years. She started her work for it in 1898, in the days of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and in 1911,...

Category: Obituaries

Duke of Westminster

Date: August 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 133

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...

News from the Branches. 1st April to 31st July

Date: September 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 315

1st April to 31st July.

Greater London.

GREATER LONDON.—Life-boat day.

District conference. (For special report see page 131.) ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing. Amount...

Category: Branches

The Motor Fishing Coble Brittania

Date: February 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 309

At eight in the morning of 20th October the No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was launched in a moderate, but increasing, N.N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, as the motor fishing coble Brittania, of Flamborough, had not...

Queen Victoria, of Lyne

Date: November 1874

Volume: 09

Issue: 94

Signals of distress were observed about half-past eight o'clock on the 10th November, from this Life-boat station, and the Manchester Unity was promptly launched to the assist- ance of the distressed vessel. It turned out that the...

Value of Barometrical Indication

Date: January 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 39

ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the Hebrides, on the 3rd Oct. last, and inflicted such distressing loss on its poor inhabitants, the following were the indications of a Kew Verified Barometer, on...

Category: Articles

Foam, of Dun Laoghaire

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. About 6.45 in the morning, when the life-boat crew were standing by half an hour after bringing in the yacht Sea Gull, another yacht, the Foam, of Dun Laoghaire, was seen apparently in difficulties in the outer...

Queen of Kent

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Ramsgate, Kent.—During the night of the 1st August, 1938, the pleasure steamer Queen of Kent, of Rochester, returning to Ramsgate Harbour from a trip, with 347 persons on board, ran aground on the Brake Sands. A gentle N.E. breeze was...