LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Golden Weddings of Life-Boatmen at Montrose
Two Life-boatmen of Montrose celebrated their golden weddings at the end of last year, Mr. David Anderson and Mr. George Pert. Both served for many years in the Montrose Life-boats, and are now pensioners of the Institution. Mr.
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Category: Articles
Telephone
CLOVELLY.—The smack Telephone, of and for Padstow from Newport, coal laden, parted one of her cables in Lundy Eoads, in a" moderate gale from N.N.W.
and a rough sea, on the 3rd March, and was obliged to slip the other...
Furthest North: Aith and Lerwick Lifeboat Stations Shetland By Joan Davies
THULE? The most remote land sighted by the Romans? Was it Shetland? Perhaps. Certainly Shetland is the most northerly of the British Isles and Aith and Lerwick, both lying above latitude 60 degrees north, are the most northerly of the...
Category: Articles
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First ever bravery award for an RNLI lifeguard Mark Johnson made RNLI history in December when he was awarded the Thanks on Vellum after saving the life of a man who was being washed out to sea. Mark is the first RNLI beach lifeguard to...
Response and Responsibility
For the hard-pressed citizens of 1940s Europe, the truth of the slogan ‘waste not, want not’ was proven every day. In 2010, the message is being embraced anew by the RNLI to help it meet its responsibilities and to stretch donations ever...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 15 pride in the past: inspiration for the future THE 1984 ANNUAL MEETINGS of the RNLI at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15, will long be remembered by all who attended. The afternoon presentation of...
Category: Meetings
Contents of Contribution Boxes, 1896
EXCLUDING THOSE BELONGINQ TO BRANCHES.
£. *. rf.
138 13 7 279 128 - 5 1 13 - 7 - 5 8 - 10 6 - 6 6 - 7 9 1 11 8 - 10 6 19- 1 11 5 12- - 7 6 213 - 16 - 3-9 1 - - 176 - 5 3 - 7 9 - 17 6 - 11 8 25- -...
Category: Donations
Plouer
About 1 P.M. on the 29th June, during a whole N. by E.
gale, information reached Margate that a ketch was in distress off Reculvers.
With considerable difficulty owing to the heavy surf breaking on the...
Cover Picture
The John Gellatly Hyndman, a 52ft Burnett relief lifeboat on temporary duty at St Peter Port, under the command of Coxswain John Petit, on service to the oil rig Orion which ran aground on the north-west shore of Guernsey when she parted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of December, 1956, the St. John Ambulance Area Commissioner reported that an urgent call had been received from a doctor at Sark informing him of a maternity case requiring...