SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat was published, the Institution has lost by death a number of its friends and workers, among them Sir Charles Wilson, Chairman of the Leeds Branch, Colonel Cornish, for many years HonorarySecretary of the...
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When Mrs. V. M. Waldock, of Chislehurst, Kent, attended the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. on 9th April, 1968, she brought with her her original life-boat collecting box which she had 'some time before 1930 from a Miss Lawson who was the...
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IN the September 1962 issue of The Life-boat the honour bestowed on Rear Admiral E. S. Irving was in- correctly given as K.C.B. instead of C.B. on page 300. On page 329 it was stated that ex-coxswain Henry Walker of Holy Island had served...
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Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Basil Hutchinson Former organising secretary midlands, who retired in 1982, on 16 January Gerry Prest Former Littlehampton branch chairman, in January Kenneth Atha Former Halifax...
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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Congratulations to the six RNLI volunteers and staff recognised in the 2017 New Year Honours:
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE):
Vivienne Grey, a volunteer crew member at Little and Broad Haven...
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The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.5 p.m. on 25th October, 1965, the Inspector for Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that a carpenter on Skelligs Rock lighthouse required immediate medical attention. The life-boat Rowland Watts proceeded...
NOVEMBER 18TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fire had been seen nine to ten miles north-west of Kinnaird Head. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the night was dark. The motor...