LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Bronze Medal Service By the Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from Birsay that a vessel was in distress...
Category: Medals
Awards to Honorary Workers
The election of Miss ALICE MARSHALL, of Oxford, a Vice-President of the Institution, and of Major H. E. BURTON, of Tynemouth, an Honorary Life-Governor, is recorded elsewhere in this issue. The following awards have also been made:— To Mr....
Category: Awards
Forest Row Lifeboat Choir
THIRTY-NINE Christmases ago in Forest Row, a little Sussex village nearly 30 miles from its nearest lifeboat, the village postman, Billy Mills, joined two local church choirs together to go carol singing to raise money for the RNLI.
Category: Articles
Tommeliten
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—6th March, 1938. The Norwegian steamer Tommeliten,, of Bergen, had stranded during & dense fog, but refloated unaided on the next high tide.—Rewards, £6 175. 6d..
A Vessel (7)
FEBRUARY 4TH. - ABERDEEN. A vessel had been heard sounding her siren continuously, but she could not be found in the darkness, and at daylight she got into port unaided. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d..
A Steamer (2)
MARCH 27TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. A steamer had gone aground, but she refloated before the life-boat reached her and went on her way. - Rewards, £27..
Presentation of a Gold Medal
THE Gold Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which is a much- coveted distinction, only bestowed for deeds of exceptional valour, was awarded in April to the REVEREND JOHN M. O'SHEA, parish priest of Ardmore, Co. Waterford...
Category: Medals
Llunelli Asc Organised a Sponsored Sea Swim In August and Raised £145 £80 of Which Was Raised By Susan Roach Who Presented the Cheque to Mrs Dorothy William
Llunelli ASC organised a sponsored sea swim in August and raised £145, £80 of which was raised by Susan Roach who presented the cheque to Mrs Dorothy Williams, chairman of Burry Port ladies' guild. Burry Port ILB was herself... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (6)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Bob Vowles,
April 1998 Bob Vowles, St Peter Port lifeboat station mechanic. He also served at the station as assistant mechanic and a crew member.
Category: Obituaries