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French Honour for a Coxswain
ON the 26th of November, 1948, at the Guildhall, St. Ives, Cornwall, the French consul at Southampton presented to Mr. William Peters, former coxswain of the St. Ives life-boat, the Brevet de Chevalier de 1'Ordre du Merite. The ...
Category: Awards
Four Flying 15 Dinghies and One National 18 Dinghy
Dinghies capsize A NEAR GALE, south-south-westerly force 7, was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday July 26, 1986, when Mrs Helen Nicholson noticed that a number of sailing boats were in difficulty off Hook Lighthouse and Waterford...
Hastings (Right): Following Her Handing Over and a Service of Dedication Held on That Blustery Sunday June 5 Hastings' New D Class Inflatable Lifeboat Cinque Ports I Was Launched Fo
Hastings (right): Following her handing over and a service of dedication held on that blustery Sunday, June 5, Hastings' new D class inflatable lifeboat Cinque Ports I was launched for a demonstration run. The new lifeboat had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Device for Helicopter Rescues
LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.
When not in use the net of the...
Category: Articles
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Tht figures refer to the number* of the Life-loatt detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 135. Dixon, Miss Anne, 45. Ionian, E. Esq., 179. Pooley, G. Esq.., the late, 265, A Lady, 16. Rixon, Miss, 249. lonourable...
Category: Donations
Royal Doulton
Royal Doulton is proud to announce atone JBolejm A limited edition fine china sculpture which captures the spirit and beauty of a defiant queen She was queen for only a thousand days, yet her spirit was to outlive the king who executed...
Category: Advertisement
Your Letters
The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.
At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...
Category: Correspondence
WHAT’S ON
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FISH SUPPER AND QUIZ
North Kessock Village Hall,...
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DECEMBER 19TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the postmaster at Sandness telephoned that a woman was seriously ill on the island of Papa-Stour and that a doctor was urgently needed. A full gale had been blowing...