Cox/Mech Cox/Mech Neil Brockman Terry George Bronze Medal Bronze Medal Coxswain/Mechanic Neil Brockman of Penlee's Arun class lifeboat and Coxswain/ Mechanic Terry George of Sennen Cove's Mersey class were awarded their medals for... - View image in PDF
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A PASSAGE up the Thames by the new Walmer life-boat in March, 1959, gave civil servants in appreciable numbers an opportunity of inspecting one of the boats which has been provided for the Institution by the civil servants' own...
Category: Articles
WE deeply lament to record the death of Mr. LYALL, the much-respected Deputy- Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which event took place on the 12th October.
Mr. LYALL was the son of the late Mr. GEOEGE LYALL,...
Category: Obituaries
When the Mayor of Poole, Councillor J. M. Norman, performed the opening ceremony of the RNLI depot at Poole on May 27, the Institution was also entertaining visitors from La Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer. (I. to r.) John Atterton,... - View image in PDF
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THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
THE Scottish Life-boat Council which was set up at the Conference held in Edinburgh last January, and which it was decided should meet twice a year, held its first and preliminary meeting, at which it elected its officers, in Edinburgh on...
Category: Meetings
Lifesaving and volunteering were celebrated at the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards at the Barbican in London this May. Chairman Admiral the Lord Boyce, in his morning address, also praised the work of the...
Category: Articles
LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account— Aith, Appledore, Boulmer, Howth, Longhope, Lowestoft, Salcombe, Sheringham, Shoreham, St.
David's, Sunderland, Weston-super-Mare, Yarmouth (I. of W.),...
Category: Accounts
Salcombe, Devon. — Late on the night of the 7th of August, 1952, a report was received that flares had been seen, and at 11.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched, with the honorary secretary, Commander A. C. Roberts, on...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.20 on the even- ing of the 16th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned a report from the North Foreland Golf Club that a cabin-cruiser had fired a red Verey light half a mile off North...