LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Professor Edgar A. Pask
The late Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., who was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, was honoured at an informal ceremony in November in the presence of the Duke and...
Category: Awards
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 4.15 a.m. on I2th March, 1967, an expectant mother had to be taken to hospital at South Uist. The life-boat R. A.
Colby Cubbin No. 3 proceeded at 4.50 in a strong gusting to gale force...
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At 11.30 a.m. on 24th March, 1967, the local nurse told the honorary secretary that an expectant mother needed to be conveyed to hospital from Kilronan.
There was a strong south westerly wind with a rough sea. It was two...
Film Opportunity
The Industrial Life Offices Association have made a film about life insurance and there will be 500 showings during the winter to audiences such as women's institutes, community associations, church and chapel social groups and so on.<...
Category: Articles
The 54Ft Arun Lifeboat Tony Vandervell
The 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell in Portland Race. Stationed at Weymouth since 1976, she was the first of her class to have the hull built in glass reinforced plastic. The Arun is a 'fast afloat' boat, her twin Caterpillar... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
With the Help of Post Office Telephone
With the help of Post Office Telephone engineers and landowners, some thousands of metres of underground cable have been laid to ins/al an emergency telephone on the popular but isolated Cocklawburn Beach, two miles south of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cadets Pull It Off!
Edinburgh Beatty Sea Cadet Unit have for many years been energetic fund raisers on behalf of the RNLI in Scotland.
Last year they undertook a sponsored boat pull in their ASC class dinghy along the full 22 miles of Loch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Irving Kbe Cb
OCTOBER 1990 RearAdmiral Sir Edmund Irving KBE CB, elected to the Committee of Management in 1965 (having previously served as an ex-officio member from 1960 to 1966 when Hydrographer of the Navy). Admiral Irving was appointed a...
Category: Obituaries
Tamworth Ladies' Guild Fund Raising Dinners
Around 180 people packed a Dray ton Manor dining room for one of the Tamworth ladies' guild fund raising dinners. Guest speaker was Derek Scott, retired coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, who treated the guests to a selection of humorous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Glister Award Shared
Mr Patrick Pile and Mr Martin Helmer, of Southwold, Suffolk, who are in the local ILB crew, share the annual award of £5 known as 'The Ralph Glister Award' for a service they carried out on February 6, 1972, when three men were...
Category: Awards