LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from Crews
WHEN Century Life-boat Day was held at Montrose the crews of the two Boats presented £8, and in addition to this returned the sum of £5 13s., which was due to them as payment for a practice launch, thus contributing nearly £14...
Category: Donations
£1500 from South Africa
At the end of January, 1940, a letter from Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, was published in "The Times" calling attention to the work of the life-boat service during the first fire months of war. The letter...
Category: Articles
National Life-Boat Museum
The R.N.L.I's charter does not make provision for the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charity for this...
Category: Advertisement
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Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...
FROM OARS TO WATERJETS
What has a 25-knot all-weather craft powered with waterjets got in common with a £300 wooden boat with 10 oars? They’re both fundraising targets set by The Lifeboat Fund – the UK civil service charity set up in aid of the RNLI. When the...
Category: Articles
Presentations at Appledore
The Service to the Lee Bay.
ON 11th January of this year the motor life-boat at Appledore (Devon) was launched in a whole gale to the help of the motor fishing boat Lee Bay, of Ilfracombe, and rescued her crew of three men...
Category: Services
64 Medals
Sixty four gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded for gallantry.
As many medals have been won in this one year of war as in the last six years of peace..
Category: Articles
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
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Appledore, Devon. At 6.28 on the evening of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people, who had gone rock climbing near Baggy Point, had not returned to their hotel as expected and were...