LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported down, north of St. Patrick’s Causeway, but a search by the life-boats, aeroplanes, and an R.A.F. boat was without result. and...
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SICK BABY BROUGHT FROM SARK St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.22 on the night of Monday the 9th September, 1963, the St. John Ambulance Island Commissioner asked if the life-boat could take a seriously ill 22-monthold baby from Sark. The...
Life-Boat Days In 1930. 1,000 Per Cent Profit
FOE many years the Life-boat Day has been one of the Institution's most successful forms of appeal. It still remains so, in spite of the criticisms made in the Press of this form of appeal on account of the very large number of charities...
Category: Articles
People and Places
LONG SERVICE AWARDS THE LONG SERVICE BADGE for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Aldeburgh Second Coxswain J. W. Churchyard Barrow Second Coxswain A. Benson Beaumaris Crew...
Category: Articles
New Year Honours
The R.N.L.I, received recognition in the New Year Honours.
O.B.E.
Lt. - Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., Chief Inspector of Life-boats. Deputy to the then Chief Inspector from 1958 to 1961, when he...
Category: Awards
It Was a Summer of Fairs Tombola Break for (I to R) Mr and Mrs W J Shufflebottom Who Opened Their Home and Garden at Hanchurch for Stoke-On-Trent Ladies' Guild F
was a summer of fairs . . . tombola break for (I. to r.) Mr and Mrs W. J. Shufflebottom, who opened their home and garden at Hanchurch for Stoke-on-Trent ladies' guild fair, with Miss Winifred Barratt, who opened festivities, and Mrs W... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. — On the 12th January, the sea being rough and a strong breeze blowing from the S.E., it was feared that the fishing-boats would encounter difficulty in making the harbour, and it was therefore decided totake out...
Wavehopper
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 11.30 on the night of the 27th of May, 1955, a man at Rock telephoned that his son had come ashore in a dinghy from his motor launch Wavehopper and had reported that the launch had broken down off The Mouls with four...
Lady Francis Osborne
LADY FRANCIS OSBORNE, who died on the 13th of March at the age of 87, was an honorary life governor of the Institution. This is the highest honour which the Institution can confer on a voluntary worker.
Lady Francis Osborne...
Category: Obituaries
Claudia, Fernland and Lady Adeline
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Queensbury when returning from the fishing-ground at 8 A.M. on the 1st June, experienced very great difficulty in making the harbour and incurred considerable risk in the prevailing E.S.E. gale. He therefore...