LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gallant Salcombe Boy
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribed wrist-watch and a framed letter of thanks to twelve-year-old Michael Dornom, of Salcombe, Devon, who saved the life of a seaman in a south- westerly gale on the 17th of September, 1950. The seaman...
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Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, of The Mumbles, in the wheelhouse of the 33ft Brede class lifeboat to be named R.VJ.B Merchant Navy, during his visit to the RNLI stand at the Birmingham Boat and Caravan Show in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ring of Safety
There’s no mistaking an RNLI lifeboat – but what are all those other craft in the lifesaving team?
When RNLI lifeboat volunteers answer the call for help, they are launching to the front line in a battle to save lives –...
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Century Life-Boat Day In London
CENTURY Life-boat Day was held on 20th May, in nearly eighty of the main boroughs and urban districts of Greater London, and the Institution had the generous help of both the Duke and Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life...
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Fundraising
Don't guess - Marinecall It's often said that the British are fixated with the weather and sailors are positively obsessed with it - and rightly so.
make it easier to get that all-important weather forecast, RNLI...
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Boy Arthur
At 6.15 P.M.
on the 4th October, it was reported to the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Carry, that a small boat was driving south in front of the town with two persons on board. As a fresh easterly wind was blowing...
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APRIL 20TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. Red flares had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £25 6s. 6d..
PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES (PFDs)
PROBLEM: A shocking 76% of fishermen who died between 2010 and 2013 weren’t wearing a lifejacket or buoyancy aid – it’s just not common practice on a lot of boats. In many cases, wearing a PFD could have saved the victim’s life.
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An Aeroplane (96)
JUNE 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A British fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a barge.
In addition to the two life-boats the motor boarding boat from...
RNLI News
Several aspects of the Chairman's address at the Annual General Meeting - reported elsewhere in this issue - are more closely linked than might appear at first sight.
The Chairman referred both to the ever-increasing...
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