LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
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Princess Manna, Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, has presented a signed photograph of herself to Mrs. B. A. Holding, of Learning- ton, who became honorary...
Category: Awards
Notes of the Quarter
A PASSAGE up the Thames by the new Walmer life-boat in March, 1959, gave civil servants in appreciable numbers an opportunity of inspecting one of the boats which has been provided for the Institution by the civil servants' own...
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Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxswains, members of lifeboat creii's and shore helpers were awarded certificates of sen-ice on their retirement and, in addition.
those entitled to them bv the Institution's regulations, were awarded...
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A Panamanian Steamer
On the evening of the 21st of January, 1955, the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat was called out to go to the help of a Panamanian steamer.
After a dangerous passage among rocks and in dense fog the life-boat...
A Dinghy (1)
On the evening of the 9th of August^ 1958, four people were rescued from a cave after a dinghy manned by four members of the St. Ives, Cornwall, life-boat crew had been holed and sunk.
For this service, a full account of...
33 Years -- Still. Sailing
One of the. first eight motor life-boats to be built for the Institution's fleet was "General Farrell", stationed at St. David's on the coast of South Wales in 1911. She served there until 1936 when she was sold out of the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Beemsterdijk
JANUARY 30TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning the coastwatchers at Brownstown Head telephoned the civic guard that a raft had been seen with three men on it. The information was passed to the life-boat station, and the...
The Former Ship's Boat Tangle
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 1.55 early on the morning of the 12th of June, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a woman living at Elie that an outboard motor boat on passage from St. Andrews to...
An Aeroplane (77)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...
An Aeroplane (76)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...