(Above) 44' Waveney class lifeboat, introduced from US Coast Guard in 1964, is first of the RNLI's 'fast afloat' lifeboats. Exceptionally manoeuvrable, her twin General Motors Detroit marine diesel engines give a top speed of... - View image in PDF
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Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...
With John Atterton, acting director, looking on, Harry H. Corbel! hands Mrs Teresa Reiley of Urchfont, Wiltshire, the keys of the Saab 99 Combi Coupe car she won in the Southern District 1978 competition which raised £10,000 for... - View image in PDF
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Mrs B Braithwaite, convener of the lifeboat shop in Edinburgh and supporter of the RNLI for many years. Mrs Braithwaite was a guild member for over 25 years and was awarded the Institution's Silver badge in 1981..
Category: Obituaries
One of the most gal- lant Life-boat services ever rendered on the Scotch coast was performed by the Montrose Life-boats on the 21st Decem- ber, it being attended with the greatest risk to some of the brave Life-boat men.
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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
Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...
Lifeboat People IN THE NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST the British Empire Medal was awarded to Alfred William Lacey, who has been the motor mechanic of Margate lifeboat since 1947; from 1940 to 1947 he served as assistant...
Category: Articles
ON 12th July, 1926, the Rhoscolyn Life-boat launched to and stood by the S.B. Kvrkwynd, of Glasgow, which had stranded, during a thick fog, two miles to the east of Rhoscolyn. The Life-boat returned arid, later, made a second trip to the...
Category: Donations
Whitby.
A courageous and arduous service was performed by the crew of the Whitby Motor Life-boat in the early morning of the 15th November, when they went to the rescue of the fivemasted schooner, the Cap Palos, of...