LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE British Empire Medal has been awarded to Coxswain Hugh Nelson, of Donaghadee, and ex-Coxswain William McConnell, of Portpatrick, in recogni- tion of the services they rendered in rescuing 33 survivors from the Princess Victoria on the...

DRIFTING ON TO THE NORE SANDS Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.35 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht was drifting on to the Nore Sands.

The motor life-boat Milburn, on tem-...

LAST Christmas a Leeds firm, Messrs.

Schofields, had a Christmas tree in the arcade outside their stores and asked for a life-boat collecting box to put beside it. They collected in it £212 9s.

The...

IN a former article in this journal (February, 1895) it was pointed out what an important part in the organi- zation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was occupied by the fisher- men living on the coasts of Great Britain and...

Since 1979 Chelsea Pensioner Company Sergeant Major Albert Spurdin has been a regular, and colourful, visitor to the RNLI's stand at the London Boat Show persuading the public to put money into his collecting box.

In...

Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...

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To the foreign honours conferred on the Institution on the occasion of its Centenary has now to be added a silver medal from Greece. On 12th January of this year the Naval A.D.C. to the Greek President wrote : " The President has...