LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Life-Boat Centenaries
Lizard AT a dinner held at the Housel Bay Hotel, the Lizard, on the 24th of April, 1959, to mark the hundredth anniver- sary of the founding of the life-boat station, Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented a...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—31st August, 1939. A cry for help had been heard by three boys from the Lydstep Caves.
The motor life-boat was launched, and a coastguard search party went by car along the top of the cliff, and got...
The Scene at Calshot Spit on 28Th July 1972 When the Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde Was Named By Lady Woods Wife of the Former Chairman of the RNLI
The scene at Calshot Spit on 28th July, 1972, when the Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde was named by Lady Woods, wife of the former Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. The life-boat, which has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Holders of Lloyd's Medals
Cambridge, I May 1852.
SIR,—In the narrative of the lamentable wreck of the New Commercial at the Bris- sons, Cornwall, given in the April number of the Life-Boat Journal, it is stated by mis- take that I am the " only...
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A Gallant Young Corporal
THE Institution has sent a framed letter of thanks and £1 to Corporal David Aitken, a 15-year-old member of the Glasgow Jewish Lads' Brigade Cadets, for bravely helping to save a woman who fell into the Tweed last...
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Correction
In the last edition of the Lifeboat in a news item titled Honours for RNLI people, we incorrectly stated that Bob Bulgin BEM had been involved with Port Isaac Lifeboat Station for 6 years.
It should have read 16 years – of...
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE YEAR 1974 began in an atmosphere of gloom and anxiety with industry limited to a three-day week and restrictions on lighting recalling wartime blackouts.
The first month of the year was also one in which there were...
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Our Life-Boat Men
Steady, brave and earnest, See them as they stand, Waiting for the signal That bids them leave the land.
Out upon the waters, Lashed to fury now, Each man and youth is working With a grave and anxious...
Category: Poetry
A Swedish Presentation
THE Swedish Life-boat Society has awarded to the Institution its plaque of merit and two diplomas, each of which has this record: Swedish Life-boat Society pre- sents to the Royal National Life-boat Institution its plaque of merit for out-...
Category: Awards