LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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During the same fierce gale, on 9th July, the Life-boat at Totland Bay was called out. Shortly after midnight the Brooke Station reported that its Boat was being launched, and at 1.35 another message was received that a vessel three or four...
Sunbeam
On the 24th October the dandy Sunbeam, of Lowestoft, bound on a fishing voyage, grounded on the South Scroby Sand, in a moderate S. by W. gale, and a very heavy sea. A steam-tug was in the vicinity at the time, but finding herself unable to...
Obituary
IN addition to Mr. Hargood, whose death is recorded on the opposite page, the Committee of Management have recently lost two valued colleagues by the deaths of Sir William Priestley, a Vice-President of the Institution and Chairman of the...
Category: Obituaries
Monte Nervoso
On the 14th October the Italian steamer Monte Nevoso stranded on the Haisborough Sands. The Cromer Motor Life-boat rescued thirty men.—Rewards, £106 9s.
(A full account of this service appeared in the November issue of...
Radio Equipment In Life-Boats
Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.
ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...
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The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 11 A.M. on the 17th April, in response to a call from the mainland for the Parish Priest, when owing to the weather conditions no other suit- able boat was available.—No expense to the...
At Duke's Funeral
The former Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., represented the Institution at the funeral on 5th June of the Duke of Windsor, who was President of the R.N.L.I. from 1919 to 1936..
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Luncheon Honour
Coxswain John King, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who won the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry in February, 1968, for the rescue of a woman from the German m.v. Maria F, attended the 'Men of the Year' luncheon at the Savoy...
Category: Awards
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HELICOPTER LANDS BOY AFTER CLIFF FALL Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.40 on the evening of the llth May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Treaddur Bay. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service...
Widder
GERMAN MOTOR VESSEL TOWED CLEAR Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 12.50 on the morning of the 30th September, 1962, the coastguard was informed by the Laird of Canna that a small coaster was ashore on the island. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon...