LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
General Sir Charles Monro, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I
The Committee of Management also deeply regret the loss of another col- league, General Sir Charles Monro, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I., who became a member of the Committee of Manage- ment in 1921. Two years later he was appointed...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governors THE following have been appointed honorary life governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the Institution : LADY...
Category: Awards
Gleneden (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
Preparations Are Made Well In Advance: Mrs Brenila Clark
Preparations are made well in advance: Mrs Brenila Clark (I. foreground) and some of her helpers hold a Garden Shop planning conference..
Category: Articles
Panachrandos
Walmer, Ken*.—At 5.50 P.M. on the * 19th October, 1939, eight hours after the life-boat had brought back the doctor from the Dutch steamer Mirza, a message was received from the doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to...
A Fishing Boat
One of the local fishermen, accompanied by his two sons, went off in his open fishing boat about noon on the 2nd June, in a strong breeze from S.W. to haul his lines, which were about H miles east of Blackhead, co. Antrim. He reached the...
Contrast
SCARBOROUGH.—The fishing smack Contrast, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour, OH the morning of the 21st March, during a strong gale of wind from the N.N.E., was struck by very heavy seas, which washed her fishing gear adrift, and...
Silver Medal Service at Cromer
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 109 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 67 LIVES RESCUED - 63,058 from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 26th, 1932 Silver Medal Service at Cromer.
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Category: Services
Daisy (1)
TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...
Michael Bowden, Full-Time Coxswain of the Appledore Lifeboat,
Today's lifeboatmen Michael Bowden, full-time coxswain of the Appledore lifeboat, first joined the station in 1971 as a crew member of the all-weather lifeboat.
Michael became an inshore lifeboat crew member in 1973,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs