LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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BOY RESCUED AFTER CLIFF FALL New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs between Llangranog and Yyns Lochtyn, and that...
Giles Named at Porthcawl's New Station
Giles named at Porthcawl's new station Porthcawl was blessed with a clear sunny day on 7 September 1996 when Anthony Clarke, nephew of famous cartoonist and RNLI supporter Carl Giles, named the stations new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, Giles.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, Former Chairman of the RNLI.
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, former Chairman of the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir David a G Mackworth Bt, Cdr Rn,
Sir David A G Mackworth BT, cdr RN, Former deputy launching authority at Hayling Island lifeboat station . Sir David became DLA in 1974, a position he held until he was 73, In 1989 he became chairman of the station committee and was awarded...
Category: Obituaries
Ex-Coxswain Murdo Sinclair
Ex-coxswain Murdo Sinclair died on igth July, 1965, at the age of 81. He had been coxswain of the Barra Island life-boat for over fifteen years and was awarded the silver medal of the Institution in 1943 for taking the life-boat forty miles...
Category: Obituaries
Agm from Page 87
from page 87 Miss F. M. Coleman Honorary secretary of Shipston-on- Stour branch since 1940; awarded record of thanks in 1948 and silver badge in 1963.
Mrs A. L. Kenyon President of Bramhall and Woodford ladies' guild...
Category: Meetings
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CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th July, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Passed the following resolution :— " The Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION,...
Category: Committee
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Knocked head A FISHERMAN was sorting fish on Courtmacsherry Pier on the afternoon of Tuesday June 30, 1981, when he lost his footing and fell into the river, hitting his head on the sloping stone face on the way down and losing consciousness...
Canoes, Yachts and Rafts
D class lifeboat rescues 36 people from canoes, yacht and raftsCleethorpes' D class inflatable liferaft was involved in three services on one day on 30 July 1989, rescuing no less than 36 people. The first service started as the crew...