LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1956: (Below) Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at Walmer Presents the Station's Centenary Vellum to Sir Gerald Wollaston Branch Chairman Photograph By Courtesy of Keystone Press
1956: below) HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, at Walmer, presents the station's centenary vellum to Sir Gerald Wollaston, branch chairman. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Keystone Press. - View image in PDF
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Statement of Funds
1968 £ 279,243 674,846 954,089 1,303,598 220,000 ENDOWMENT FUNDS (Income only from which is available for expenditure in accordance with donors' directions) RESTRICTED FUNDS (To be applied as directed by donors) GENERAL FUND (see...
Category: Accounts
Top award for lifeguards
A year ago we reported how lifeguards at West Kirby in Merseyside teamed up with lifeboat crews to save a man who had fallen onto rocks. Now the team have been recognised with a special award.
The Alison Saunders...
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H.M. Trawler Dunraven Castle
JANUARY 29TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 7.6 at night a telephone call was received from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Dunraven Castle had run aground on Iron Rock Ledges, Isle of Arran,...
Isabella Heron, of Blyth
During a strong gale from the S.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th March, the George Houn&field Life-boat put off and succeeded in taking into Harwich harbour the distressed brigantine Isabella Heron, of Blyth, and...
Granton Osprey
Nine from rocks AS REPORTED on page 15, the silver medal of the RNLI was awarded to Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat for the part he played in the rescue of nine men from the trawler Granton Osprey in hurricane force...
Lean Machines
The new Atlantic lifeboat workshop at the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, was officially opened by RNLI President The Duke of Kent on 16 April. The workshop will see the building and refits of the charity’s...
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The Danish Vessel Irene Frijs
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 4.45 a.m.
on 3rd November, 1965, the harbourmaster was informed that the Danish vessel Irene Frijs of Copenhagen was arriving in Wick Bay to land two injured seamen. The vessel unfortunately...
Toogo, of Esthonia and Corinthian, of London
North Deal.
In then* long record of service the.
men of the North Deal Life-boat have rarely been so severely tried as they were in the galea, at the beginning of last November. A whole gale from E.N.E....
Notes of the Quarter
ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
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