LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contents
Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Message From the Prime Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Blue Peter Life-boats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Talking With Dr Sydney Peace of Orkney By Joan Davies
LISTEN TO Dr Sydney Peace and, underlying all that he says, you will hear the ring of his abiding love of the sea. You will also hear the echoes of his deep respect of all seafaring people and in particular for the lifeboatmen of Orkney,...
Category: Articles
"All Sich Things As the Like o' That."
Pulling Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" Our men have the advantage of a local knowledge which, if it had been taken into account by...
Category: Songs
First Gold Medal for Ten Years
FOR the first time for ten years and for only the second time since the end of the last war the Institution's highest award for gallantry, the gold medal, has been conferred. The medal was awarded to Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre,...
Category: Services
The Wreck of the "Islander."
A FULL account appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat of the wreck of the yacht Islander, with the loss of six lives, and of the gallant efforts made from the shore by several men to rescue the crew when the vacht was almost on the rocks...
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Award to Master of Steamer
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation has awarded a binocular glass to Captain Donald Joseph MacNeil of Glasgow, master of the coastal tank steamer B.P. Distributor, for skill and seamanship in rescuing six members of the crew of the...
Category: Awards
The King and the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 48 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 14th, 1935 - 63,938 The King and the Life-boat Service.
By...
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Across the Revetment of the Mersey
THERE was a full southerly gale blowing off-New Brighton last September 15th, with frequent squalls of rain, and the sea was very rough. Soon after half- past one in the afternoon the coastguard noticed a three-masted schooner at anchor in...
Category: Services
Sibiria
A Magnificent Group of Services.
19th~21st November, 1916.
SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
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