LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meetings Continued
Presentation of Awards As usual, the morning's Annual General Meet ing was followed in the afternoon by the Institution's Annual Presentation of Awards, both to voluntary workers and for gallantry.
Mr Acland opened...
Category: Meetings
Past and Present
75 Years Ago The following article appeared in the August, 1911, issue of THE LIFEBOAT:VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
FOK the second time within two years Newiniay has been fortunate enough to receive a...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.20 in the morning the lifeboat watchman saw a large bombing aeroplane come down on fire near the gate vessel.The sea was ablaze with burning petrol. The coxswain rang up the Royal...
Past and Present
25 Years Ago Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham-St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a...
Category: Articles
No. 21
CLOVELLY, DEVON.—A member of the Local Committee having observed what he took to be a signal of distress from a vessel in Barnstable Bay about 10 P.M.
on 28th April, reported it to the Coastguard, and after consulting the...
Man Is Hauled Aboard Life-Boat
Man Is Hauled Aboard Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Michael Lenegham BEM
Michael Lenegham BEM, coxswain of Newcastle, Co. Down lifeboat for 26 years and a lifeboatman for more than 40 years. He served as second coxwain from 1950 until 1961 before taking over as coxwain, having first joined the crew in 1946, aged...
Category: Obituaries
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APRIL 9TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.30 in the afternoon a report was received through the Abergele police and the Rhyl coastguard that people had seen an airman come down by parachute into the sea off...
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 12 1980: 1,215 people rescued; nearly £12 million raisedTUESDAY MAY 12 was the day of the RNLI's 1981 annual general meeting of the governors and annual presentation of awards and, as usual...
Category: Meetings
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SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported down, north of St. Patrick’s Causeway, but a search by the life-boats, aeroplanes, and an R.A.F. boat was without result. and...