LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
For the Service to Juniper on February
For the service to Juniper on February 19, 1967, the silver medal was awarded to John Robert Nicolson, coxswain of Aith lifeboat from 1965 to 1971. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dennis Coutts. - View image in PDF
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Bronze Medals for Irish Life-Boatmen
Bronze medals for gallantry have been awarded to two Irish life-boatmen, Coxswain Samuel Nelson of Donaghadee and Second Coxswain Patrick Power, of Dunmore East. Coxswain Nelson won his medal for two services, one on 2151. November and the...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
Jilly Cooper Met Hastings Own Lifeboat Fairlight and Some of Her People: (I to R) Christine Martin Peter Thorpe Mary Shoesmith Bob Shoesmith Colin Green Joe Marti
Jilly Cooper met Hastings own lifeboat, Fairlight, and some of her people: (I. to r.) Christine Martin, Peter Thorpe, Mary Shoesmith, Bob Shoesmith, Colin Green, Joe Martin (coxswain), Doug White (second coxswain), H. 'Sassy' Benton,... - View image in PDF
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Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Retires
COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
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Flowers for the Life-Boats
DURING the present summer the Honorary Secretary of the Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton Branch, Captain Shrubb, has made a substantial sum for the funds of the Branch by the sale of flowers. Each day he and his family have sent flowers from...
Category: Donations
Rug Making for the Institution
IN The Lifeboat for December, 1931 it was announced that the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Cobham, Surrey, Miss Margaret Power, had very kindly offered to make woollen hearth- rugs and slip mats in aid of the Institu- tion's funds....
Category: Donations
Summary of Accounts for 1977
Summary of Accounts for 1977 Full accounts are available from Poole Headquarters.
£ millions 6.5 How expenditure was apportioned Ten years at a glance 0.5 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 Areas of...
Category: Accounts
A Sales Caravan Sited on Poole Quay During the Summer Has Not Only Provided a Test-Bed for New Souvenir Lines Such As T-Shirts and Anorak Badges But It Is Also a Popula
A sales caravan sited on Poole Quay during the summer has not only provided a test-bed for new souvenir lines, such as T-shirts and anorak badges, but it is also a popular information bureau for lifeboat affairs and local... - View image in PDF
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Royal Visitor:
Royal visitor: Princess Anne discusses lifeboating with Helmsman Bob Fossetl when she visited Southend in May to name the town's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Percy Garon II.
Before the naming ceremony, the Princess had... - View image in PDF
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