LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue In the Surf
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Motor Mechanic P. N. Thomson and Crewman J. Anderson of the Whitby IRB who saved three people and a dog from a capsized cabin speedboat.
It was at 1845...
Category: Services
Glencoe, Mistley, Cambria, Decima, Nelson,Verona and Houston City
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SOUTHEND - ON - SEA DECEMBER 6-11TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The gale of the 5th of December, in which the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) had been out for five hours and had towed in a...
Coxswain Edward Parker
Coxswain Edward Parker, who died on i5th October, 1964, was a former coxswain of Margate life-boat who was awarded the D.S.M. for the part he and his crew played at Dunkirk when the Margate life-boat rescued over 600 British servicemen from...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. R. C. Baverstock
MR. R. C. BAVERSTOCK, former Assistant Secretary of the Institution, died on the 21st October. He joined the Institution's staff in 1909, and after a break during the first world war, when he served in the army, he was in the service...
Category: Obituaries
A Small
20th March. A man in a small boat was in distress, but was helped by a tug.— Rewards, £4 8s. 6d..
A Sailing Trawler
15th March. A sailing trawler ran ashore in a fog, but was towed off by a tug.—Rewards, £28 19*..
Rescue Among the Lobster Pots
A LETTER of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain Alfred Manning and the crew of the Margate, Kent, life-boat for the part they played in saving two...
Category: Services
Michel Swenden and Adrian Letzer (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Clac- ton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard reported that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station that the motor...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Miss ALICE MARSHALL has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution, in recognition of her distinguished services as Honorary Secretary of the Oxford Branch.
To Mrs. WALTERS, in recognition of her valu- able...
Category: Awards
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., arriving at the Belfast Boat Show on 18th February, 1970. Admiral Woods, while in Northern Ireland, visited a number of life-boat stations.
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., arriving at the Belfast Boat Show on 18th February, 1970. Admiral Woods, while in Northern Ireland, visited a number of life-boat stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs