LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
THE following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries and other hon.
workers in acknowledgement of their valuable co-operation extending over periods of 10 years and upwards.
To the Rev. COURTNAY...
Category: Awards
None
Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.20 A.M. on 29th February, in a moderate E.S.E. gale with a heavy sea, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that Newarp Lightvessel was firing rockets.
The Coxswain...
A Motor Boat (1)
Fowey, Cornwall - At 4.27 p.m. on 18th May, 1966, a woman informed the honorary secretary that she and her husband had been in a motor boat which capsized in Lantio Bay, but they had managed to scramble ashore. The lifeboat Deneys Reitz was...
People and Places
BIRTHDAY HONOURS Among the awards announced in the 1985 Birthday Honours list were: QBE: E. C. B. Corlett, chairman and managing director of Burness, Corlett and Partners, a member of the RNLI's technical consultative committee since...
Category: Articles
A 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat a Development of This US Coast Guard Life-Boat With a Speed of 17 Knots Is Destined for Falmouth the RNLI Has Already Six of the 44-Foot V
A 44-foot steel life-boat. - View image in PDF
A development of this U.S. Coast Guard life-boat, with a speed of 17 knots is destined for Falmouth. The R.N.L.I. - View image in PDF
has already six of the 44-foot version in service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launch of the Life-Boat
THERE'LL be work for the Life-boat—God help it to-night, Where the foam of tiebreakers leaps np to the light.
God help it! It's ready to ride through the mist, And the men who shall man it the women have kissed.<...
Category: Poetry
October (1)
KIRKWALL, ORKNEYS. On the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1946, a Polish soldier was off Crow Nest Point, in Kirkwall Bay, on a raft and being blown out to sea. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At the request of the...
Category: Services
A Boat and a Sailing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.55 on the morning of the 9th August, 1961, the coxswain learnt that a small boat with one person on board was in difficulty about three quarters of a mile off shore in Red Wharf Bay. A helicopter was called, and...
Naming Ceremonies
Cromer THE new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was named at Cromer on 2ist June, 1967. She was given to the R.N.L.I, and her replacement provided for in perpetuity by Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, in memory of her...
Category: Inaugurations
A Motor Fishing Boat
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....