LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medal for Scottish Skipper
THE gallantry of the skipper of a fishing vessel, Mr. Ian Innes of Helmsdale, Sutherland, which resulted in the rescue of three other fishermen, has been recognized by the award of the Institution's bronze medal for...
Category: Services
The Fourth International Life-Boat Conference
By Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.
SINCE the Royal National Life-boat Institution, in its Centenary year of 1924, organized the first International Life-boat Conference ever held, it...
Category: Meetings
The Centenary: In Scotland
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Aberdeen held a Centenary Meeting on 23rd January, at which Lord Provost Meff presided, and the Marquess of Aber- deen and Temair, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution,...
Category: Articles
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby who died on the 22nd December, 1965 at the age of 52 was an active supporter and friend of the life-boat service. To a man, such as he was, of great personal courage and deep sincerity and with a passionate interest in...
Category: Obituaries
Our Late Secretary
With the deepest sorrow we have to announce that Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Secretary of the Institution, died, after a long illness, on the 7th June. Mr. Dibdin was born on the 9th October, 1849, and was thus in his sixty-first year. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Ransel
On the 16th September the Dutch motor vessel Ransel, of Delfzyl, bound, laden, from Ayr to Teignmouth, came to anchor in Courtown Bay, and five of the crew, with the master's wife and her sister, went ashore for provisions. The master,...
The American Steamer Fort Perrot
JULY 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 2.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that shouts had been heard off Dungeness Point by a coastal battery. Later the lifeboat was asked to put out by the Royal Naval shore signal station, and at 4.15...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To ROBEBT EsoiAND, on his retirement, after To RICHARD WmiAMS, on bis retirement, serving 25 years as Signalman, and formerly after serving ten years as Second Coxswain, 17 years as a member of the crew of the and one year as Bowman of the...
Category: Awards
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Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past ten on the morning of the 1st of Febru- ary, 1950 the honorary secretary of the Wick life-boat station telephoned that a doctor wanted to be conveyed to Stroma, where medical aid was urgently needed. He...
Roselen
RESCUE BY LIFE-BOAT AND CANOES Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1963, a boy called at the second coxswain's house to inform him that a speed boat had capsized outside Cullercoats...