LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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North East South East: the Naming of Humber Lifeboat September 10 and Newhaven Lifeboat September 18
THERE WAS MUCH that was unusual in the naming ceremony of the 54' Arun lifeboat City of Bradford IV on Saturday, September 10; but then, there is much that is unusual about Humber, her station. Isolated at the seaward end of a long...
Category: Inaugurations
Classification of Service Launches of Inshore Rescue Boats for 1970 Compared With 1969
Classification of service launches of inshore rescue boats for 7970 compared with 7969 :ls ing merchant vessels e merchant vessels il fishing vessels 'easurc craft asure craft jropelled pleasure cralt No.
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Category: Services
Louisa Twyzell
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the loth of October, 1955, eight fishing cobles put off to tend their crab pots, but the weather worsened and six of the boats returned. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Richard Ashley was...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 22nd August, 1935.
PAID £21,918 18s. 7d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
COMMUNITY NEWS
A roaring success
The Bikers Cove, neighbours and friends of RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station, hosted a custom bike show at the end of July – and it was certainly a 'triumph'. Over 400 bikers from all over...
Category: Articles
September
Launches 37. Lives rescued 14.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning news was received by wireless from the S.S. Irish Willow that she had on board forty-seven survivors from the S.S. Empire...
Category: Services
No Need for Further Insurance
A FOREIGNER asked to contribute on London life-boat day waved the collector aside saying, "No thank you, I have alreadv been saved.".
Category: Articles
Priscilla Whittles
The Lizard - Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 5 p.m. on 27th November, 1969, a report was received that a fishing vessel, with two skin-divers on board, was in difficulties in Rill bay. At 5.30 the life-boat The Duke ofCornwall (Civil Service No. 33)...