LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hundredth Birthday
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, sent a telegram of congratulations to Mr. J. C. Clarke, of Gwenfro, Greystone Park, Penmaenmawr, Caerns., who celebrated his hundredth...
Category: Committee
Book Review
The Norfolk Coast is the title of a little book by Neville Long which is published by Geoffrey Dibb Ltd., of Brundall, Norfolk, price 6s. 5d. including postage. Mr. Long, who is up to date with his facts, writes: 'So these chapters have...
Category: Articles
Outside Victoria Station
Life-boatmen up for the annual meeting. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Grace
Mrs. A. Wooldridge, honorary secretary of the Stourbridge branch of the R.N.L.I., has suggested the following Grace for life-boat dinners: 'For men of brave heart and great courage; for willing workers in the service of others; and for...
Category: Articles
Church Kneelers
The R.N.L.I. Depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., has to be ready to tackle almost any request for help. A recent one was for a life-boat design for 60 new church kneelers for Flamborough. A design was turned out incorporating a life-boat and the...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Walter Semple of Cloughey
Winner of the bronze medal for gallantry (See page 249). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Oranje Nassau
Penlee, Cornwall - At n a.m. on 28th May, 1966, the honorary secretary was told that the life-boat would be needed at about 8 a.m. the following day to bring an injured man ashore from the Dutch motor vessel Oranje...
The Western Lightship
JANUARY 7TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the evening of the 6th of January the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was asked by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board for the services of the life-boat to...
Service to North Sea Oil Rig
THE members of the crews of the Scarborough and Teesmouth life-boats have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for their services on the...
Category: Services
A Rescue on the Cornish Cliffs
THE Institution has awarded its Thanks inscribed on Vellum and a monetary reward to Mr. J. Curtis, a fisherman of Polperro, Cornwall, for his gallantry in rescuing a shipwrecked man by climbing down the cliffs to him. in circumstances of...
Category: Awards