68 years ago — From THE LIFEBOAT of 1928 With the recent success of the RNLI resource packs 'Launch!' and 'Lifeboats' (see feature below) as part of the youth promotion campaign, it is interesting to look back and see what...
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Mr. P. B. PEMBEBTON, of New York, who was saved from the wreck of the Mohegan, recently Beat a present of 501. to the crew of the Porthonstock Life-boat, St. Keverne, Cornwall. la thanking him, the crew forwarded their photographs and a...
Category: Correspondence
THE two new motor life-boats stationed at Cromer in 1934 and 1935 were named this year by the Right Hon.
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.R, Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
The...
Category: Inaugurations
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: March 1 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 19. May 4, 5 and 11 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 10 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: March 28. April 7. May 7. 19 and 20 (twice) Aldeburgh. Suffolk...
Category: Services
By Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.
SINCE the Royal National Life-boat Institution, in its Centenary year of 1924, organized the first International Life-boat Conference ever held, it...
Category: Meetings
RESCUE OF LIFE BY SWIMMING, AND EXPERIMENTS THEREON.
THE accompanying Paper is translated from some interesting remarks published, under authority, by M. FERRAND, druggist and Member of the Lyons Board of Health. He...
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THE two silver and six bronze medals, with diplomas, which were awarded to Coxswain William Mogridge, of Torbay, and his crew by the French Government for the rescue of the skipper of the trawler Satanicle, on 30th December, 1935, were...
Category: Medals
The first of May 2002 was a very special day for the RNLI, Falmouth lifeboat station and the county of Cornwall. Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, started her Golden Jubilee tour of Great Britain in Cornwall and...
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Freedom of Swansea The officers, committee and crew of The Mumbles lifeboat station were honoured with the Freedom of the City of Swansea on April 23, 1987, when the Lord Mayor of Swansea, Councillor Mrs Lilian Hopkin, presented the freedom...
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Persons rescued from shipwreck Kilmore life-boat landed a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel.
Fishing coble Premier, of Scarborough. Scarborough life-boat escorted coble.
Fishing boat Isa Simpson, of...
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