LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild. New President: General Council
AT the personal request of the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Sutherland has accepted the Presidency of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in succession to the Marchioness of Carisbrooke, and she inaugurated her Presidency by issuing an...
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In This Issue
In this issue Institution News 2 Letters 9 Feature Advancing a great cause 10 A review of the 150 year history of the Lifeboat magazine Lifeboats in action 14 Award-winning rescues - including the first award for an RNLI lifeguard The...
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A Gold Medal for Conspicuous Gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay With the Crew Who Sailed With Him In Storm Force Winds on Monday December 6 197
A gold medal for conspicuous gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay with the crew who sailed with him in storm force winds on Monday December 6, 1976, to the rescue of the crew of MV Lyrma. (/. to r.) Crew Member John Dew, Second... - View image in PDF
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Annual Meeting and Presentation of Awards
Fast fleet 'on target' for 1993 WITH RECORD numbers of lifeboats under construction or on order, the RNLI's chairman, the Duke of Atholl told a packed Royal Festival Hall on May 12 of his vision of the service in the year...
Category: Meetings
The French Life-Boat Society. Boat-House With Movable Platform at La Joliette, Marseilles
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
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A Box of Arbroath Smokeys for Hrh the Duke of Kent
A box of Arbroath smokeys for HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, from Coxswain Douglas Matthewson. It is at Arbroath that the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed.. - View image in PDF
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The Sailing Boat Kandee
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.— At 11.5 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1954, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported that a wireless message had been received from the mail steamer Hibernia that a sailing boat had cap- sized off the Kish...
Ramsgate: After Naming Ralph and Joy Swann Hrh the Duchess of Kent and Commander Swann (l) Embarked for a Run Out to Sea In the 44' Wa\Eney Class Lifeboat Ph
Ramsgate: After naming Ralph and Joy Swann, HRH The Duchess of Kent and Commander Swann (/.) embarked for a run out to sea in the 44' Wa eney class lifeboat.
photographs by courtesy of (left) A. E. Turner and (below) J.... - View image in PDF
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The Gorton Lightvessel
DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.55 p.m. on 3ist January, 1965, the superintendent of Trinity House asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off of the Gorton Lightvessel....
Summary of Year's Work
Launches of Life-boats.
Total number of launches, including those in which for various reasons no services were rendered - - - - - - - - 411 Of these launches 249 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
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