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The Duchess of Kent at the Depot (1)

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

THE Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the Institution's depot at Boreham Wood on the 9th of November. She was received by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the committee of management, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown,...

Category: Committee

Focus on . . . St. Abbs

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

St. Abbs life-boat station still holds the record for the longest service by one of the Institution's life-boats. This was achieved by the previous life-boat W. Ross Macanhur of Glasgow when she stood by the Swiss cargo ship Nyon for 11...

Category: Articles

R. W. Parry

Date: February 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 139

GKIMSBY.—A telegram having been received reporting a vessel in distress, the Life-boat Manchester Unity put off at about 9.45 A.M. on the 13th October, during a strong N.W. gale and a heavy sea. She proceeded down the Humber under sail, and...

A Speed Boat (1)

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

OVERTURNED SPEEDBOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 3.15 p.m.

on 20th June, 1965, the life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was returning to her station after a publicity launch when one of the crew saw an overturned...

Medical Mock-Up:

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Medical mock-up: the rescue services' ability to deal with large numbers of survivors, many suffering the effects of burns, chemical contamination, compound fractures and other injuries was put to the test in a complex exercise off the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Royal Bank of Scotland

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Gloves - £7 Dry Suit - £245 First Aid kit - £245 Lifejacket-£182 Compass - £248 Radio - £535 And how. would Sir like to pay? A Lifeboats MasterCard will do nicely.

Because if you switch from...

Category: Advertisement

David Jolly (Tiller Master)

Date: Winter 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 455

THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For craft up to 50ft. over 100lbs.

thrust. Self-contained unit with simple 2-hole installation. Quickly disengaged. 3 amp. average...

Category: Advertisement

Lifeboat Services

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

West Division Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two...

Category: Services

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Thanks of Institution on Vellum The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to the following honorary secretaries of life-boat stations on their retirement: MR. CHARLES H. ASH, Appledore.

CAPTAIN...

Category: Awards

Ciaran Doyle

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

Bronze Medal Ciaran Doyle of the Garcia Underwater Unit for the long and ardous service m which three casualties were rescued from a cave off Horse Island, near Ballyglass in severe conditions - see this issue of The Lifeboat for a full... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs