BY the death, which took place on the- 23rd June last, of the late Admiral WARD „ in his 77th year, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION has lost a good friend and a devoted officer. From the time he joined the Committee in February 1852...
Category: Obituaries
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.15 in the night of the 29th of November, 1949, a Canisbay doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take him to Stroma Island to attend an injured man, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to take him. A...
THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
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0 In Power Boats in Rough Seas (Adlard Coles Ltd., £4.25) Dag Pike has taken a sharp, discerning look at the factors affecting the seaworthiness and safety of power boats and described them in concise, seamanlike terms. Whatever...
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THE newest type of tractor now being used by the Institution is a develop- ment of the 95 b.h.p. Challenger III diesel crawler tractor made by Messrs.
John Fowler and Company (Leeds) Limited.
The standard...
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THE WRECKERS recently returned to the popular Devonshire holiday resort of Ilfracombe, but these particular plunderers were strictly landlubbers who had managed to smuggle their way into timbers within the local life-boat...
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The Institution deeply regrets the loss of the following former coxswains of life-boats in recent months in addition to others whose deaths have already been recorded in the Life-boat: Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The...
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
(continued from page 51} shipping industry could well appreciate the financial problems of the RNLI and the hard decisions which it has had to face. The shipping industry knows all about inflation and the desperately serious problems which...
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