On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...
THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall,- Westminster, on the 27th of June, 1949, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Jan. 8.—Eight men promptly put off in a coble and saved three men from a small pleasure oobla who were overtaken by bad weather when out fishing off Berwick-on- Tweed.—Reward, il.
Jan. 11.—Six men put off in a coble during...
Category: Articles
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.
Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given...
Category: Awards
IT is very pleasant to be able to record that this Competition is growing both in popularity and in the extent to which schools in every part of Great Britain are taking part in it. Unfortunately, owing to the political situation, the...
Category: Articles
Electronic aids to navigation and sailing » chart tpacm In "Wlnmnt", a Nicholson "43" finished by the Berthon Boat Co. Ltd.
The navigational instruments, from left to right, are as follows: HESTIA...
Category: Advertisement
1st April to 30th June.
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON. — Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild at the house of the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the...
Category: Branches
J. P. McDonough N. Pendlebury Galway Bay C. Hernon to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those...
Category: Awards
The Duke of Atholl, former convener of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, with Mrs E. P.
Hill, former secretary of Gourock ladies' guild. Mrs Hill, awarded a gold badge, had been unable to attend the AGM in London in May to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
Category: Services