LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mexican, of St Johns
A large vessel with a flag of distress flying, was seen off this place during a gale of wind on the 9th January. On the Wicklow Life-boat : Robert Theophilus Garden proceeding to her, it was found she had lost her way, | and a...
Belgian Honour for the Institution
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION has received, through the Belgian Ambassador, the Civic Cross of the 1st Class, which the King of the Belgians has conferred on it " In recognition of valuable services rendered by the Insti-...
Category: Awards
£43 for a Cigarette-Tin
THE Institution has received a gift of £43 5s. from the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. It was the result of an auction on board the Warwick Castle of a cigarette-tin engraved by the captain..
Category: Donations
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (13)
On the 7th-8th December, 1939, the Salcombe life-boat rescued the sixty-two survivors of the S.S. Tajandoen, of Amsterdam, from the S.S. Louis Shied, of Antwerp, which had gone ashore after picking up survivors of the Tajandoen, sunk by...
Category: Articles
Norwegian Honour for the Institution
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., Chairman of organizathe Committee of Management, and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, have each been presented by H.M. the King of Norway with the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Life-boat Society...
Category: Awards
Lifeboat Small Ads
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Category: Advertisement
Plans for RNLI lifeboat station at Portishead
Portishead Lifeboat Trust has requested that the RNLI takes on the running of the independent Portishead and Bristol lifeboat.
Our Trustees have agreed, in principle, to pursue the adoption of the Somerset station, but...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991, at the usual venue on the South Bank in London, with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the...
Category: Meetings
Scotch offers support
RNLI SOS day 2010 is on 29 January, so now is the time to really get planning.
Burns night celebrations are a popular SOS activity for those in Scotland (or those who just wish they were in Scotland!), and Talisker whisky...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WALTER FAIRBAIN, on his retirement, after serving for 34J years as Coxswain of the Dunbar and Skateraw Life-boats, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a Pension.
To WTLLIAM H. MARTIN, on his retirement, after...
Category: Awards