LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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The King and the Coxswain
WHEN His Majesty the King was staying for a few days at Londeshorough Park last October, John Owston, the Coxswain superintendent of the Scar- borough Life-boat, was sent for by Lord Londesborough to assist the shooting parties. After the...
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Above: Ian Venner
Above: Ian Venner manoeuvres the dead whale into the slings, ready for towing to the local boatyard.. - View image in PDF
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The Crew
30 years, 250 rescues later Tom Robertson, the honorary secretary of the Queensferry lifeboat station, received a presentation of binoculars and a certificate at the annual general meeting of the RNLI in Scotland, for 30 years'...
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lolanthe
At 11.57 a-m- °n 2r>d September, 1966, information was received that the German ship Jane had the British yacht lolanthe in tow and was anxious to hand her over to the life-boat. The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...
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Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to have fallen over the cliff at Church bay. The coastguard rescue team and two helicopters were already searching.
The life-boat...
A Family Occasion at West Mersea:
A family occasion at West Mersea: On July 31 Michael Pennell (third from I), divisional inspector for the South East, made presentations to a father and his two sons for their long service to the RNLI. (I to r) Albert Clarke received a... - View image in PDF
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Al Kwather I (1)
Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
Another Bronze Medal Service By Padstow. Awards to the Master and Crew of the Tug "Helen Peele."
PADSTOW has the distinction of having carried out two services last year in which such skill and gallantry were shown in circumstances of great danger that the Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal in each case.
The...
Category: Medals