It is also with great regret that we record the death of His Excellency the President of Ireland, Mr Erskine Hamilton Childers. The condolences of the Institution have been conveyed to his widow and the RNLI was represented at the funeral in...
Category: Obituaries
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 TWO GOLD MEDALS 7 NEW YEAR HONOURS 15 NORWEGIAN LIFE-BOAT ANNIVERSARY l6 SERVICE TO NORTH SEA OIL RIG 20 RESCUE OF FIVE BOYS AND A GIRL 22 FRAMED LETTER FOR COXSWAIN AND CREW 24 OBITUARY 26...
Category: Articles
THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION VOL. XLI MARCH 1968 No. 423 CONTENTS PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN ..................... 2 NOTES OF THE...
Category: Articles
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 AWARDS FOR "CALCULATED COURAGE" 5 RESCUE DURING CONVALESCENCE 6 MEDAL FOR RESCUE FROM FISHING VESSEL . . . . . . . . . . J RESCUE OF MAN CUT OFF BY TIDE 9 ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY AWARD 9...
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Coxswain Robert Cross, G.M., who has been in command nf the lifeboat station at The Humber for 3i years, has retired at the age of 67.
These last tour years have been the busiest, as well as the most dangerous, in his long...
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AT the end of 1949, Mr. A. C. Butcher, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E., the superin- tendent engineer, retired from the Institution on reaching the retiring age.
He had then been with it for over twenty-eight years. He joined its...
Category: Committee
At midnight on the 12th November it was reported that a vessel had gone on the Long Bock. The Life-boat's crew were summoned, and the boat proceeded to the vessel and brought ashore her crew of three men. She proved to be the schooner...
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. At 8.30 P . M . the owner of the Skibbereen motor fishing boat Safe Return reported that his boat, with a crew of three, was five hours overdue, and the motor lifeboat Shamrock was launched at 9.5 P.M....
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...