Dr. E. J. Gordon Wallace, the honorary medical adviser to the Weymouth life- boat station, has been awarded a certificate on vellum for the part he played when the Weymouth life-boat put out to a yacht on ipth June,...
Category: Awards
ON WEDNESDAY November 21, 1979, 22 months after January storms dramatically isolated Margate's lifeboathouse by destroying the town's pier on which it stood, the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38) was...
Category: Inaugurations
MONTROSE.—At about 9 A.M. on the 13th April the wind commenced to blow from S.S.E., and the sea rose quickly, the coxswains of the Life-boats were therefore on the watch during the day in case there should be any call for their services.<...
THE recently published Annual Report of the Scottish Fishery Board is full of interesting and useful information on this very important part of the national industries and food supplies.
This Board, as at present...
Category: Articles
. . . and (right) a welcome from Commander Peter Sturdee, OBE RN, exhibition co-ordinator.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weymouth, Dorset 1st January. A ketch had been in difficulties, but was taken in tow by another boat.— Rewards, £19 15s. Qd..
Awards at Herne Bay and The Gugh, Isles of Scilly.
THE Institution has made special awards for two acts of individual gallantry in saving life at sea. one by Mr. Frank Holness, of Herne Bav, the other by Mrs. G. B. Bond,...
Category: Awards
1—Which is the most (a) northerly; (b) easterly; (c) southerly; and (d) westerly station of the RNLI ? 2— Which was the first sailing lifeboat ? 3—Which were (a) the steepest, and (b) the longest slipways for lifeboats ? 4—Where were the...
Category: Articles
The 20 Branches with the highest Collection.
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the Branch financial year ending September 30th,...
Category: Branches
THE GAG secretary has a new telephone number, 66 38209, on which both the secretary and the chairman, Mr. R. N. Crumbie, can be reached. The address remains the same: 126a High Street, Orpington, Kent.
The 1972 national...
Category: Committee