LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Antaeus
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Awards to Life-Boat Workers
MR. R. H. MAHONY, of Ballycotton, CAPTAIN G. B. PIGGOTT, of Barmouth, and MR. S. VALENTINE, of Girvan, have all been accorded the highest distinction which the Royal National Life-boat Institution can confer on an honorary worker. This is...
Category: Awards
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
" / have given all those fifty badges out, and now am wanting many more as I have more new members to give them to, and also many of the old workers are very anxious to join. .. .
I am quite sure that the Guild is a...
Category: Articles
Two New District Organising Secretaries
Miss T. H. Ashe has been appointed district organizing secretary for Wales, and Wing-Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., district organizing secretary for the Midlands.
Miss Ashe succeeds Lieut.-Colonel V. M. Lewis, M.C., who...
Category: Committee
The Centenary: In Scotland
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Aberdeen.
Aberdeen held a Centenary Meeting on 23rd January, at which Lord Provost Meff presided, and the Marquess of Aber- deen and Temair, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution,...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and present- ed with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the .Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
Category: Awards
R.N.L.B.I. Headquarters' Staff In the War
IN The Life-Boat for November, 1918, it was indicated that in due course an effort would be made to furnish some details regarding the war services ren- dered by members of the Institution's staff in the Great War. At that time —the...
Category: Articles
The National Life-Boat Institution of Japan
THIS enterprising and interesting Insti- tution was established in 1889, its object being "the saving of life and property appertaining to ships in distress off the coasts of Japan." Its affairs are successfully managed and worked...
Category: Articles
An Inflatable Canoe
LIFE-BOAT AND SPEED BOAT PUT OUT TO CANOEISTS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 26th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an inflatable canoe was drifting out to sea off Jaywick. The life-boat...
Chart Key
1 - No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit.
2 - R.N. Whirlwinds from station flight available for S.A.R. duty from 08.00 hours to sunset.
3 - Coastal Command Shackletons available for long range S.A.R.
Category: Charts