LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Members of Committee of Management
ME. PHILLIP COLVILLE M.B.E., Mr. E.
M. Cooper-Key, M.P., Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood and Commander A. J. O'Brien Twohig, have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institu-...
Category: Committee
EX-COXSWAIN HARRY LLOYD JONES
The death has taken place of ex-Coxswain Harry Lloyd Jones, formerly of Barmouth, Merionethshire, who took part in several daring rescues in Cardigan Bay. He was 70, and 12 years of his long service with the life-boats was spent as...
Category: Obituaries
Below) Hubert Petit Coxswain of St.Peter Port from 1948 to 1964 Was Awarded Both the Knli's Gold Medal and the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Lifeboat Institution F
(Below) Hubert Petit, coxswain of St Peter Port from 1948 to 1964, was awarded both the KNLI's gold medal and the gold medal of the Norwegian Lifeboat Institution for the service to Johan Collett in 1963. With deep regret we announce his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Macgill
James Macgill, chairman and deputy launching authority of the Arran (Lamlash) lifeboat station. Mr Macgill was chairman of the branch from 1976 and deputy launching authority from 1974 until his death. He was presented with a statuette in...
Category: Obituaries
Livre
A CAREFUL WATCH Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the early morning of the 21st of September, 1947, a motor ketch left Yarmouth for Wisbech, in fine weather, but the wind got up, and when, about 10 o'clock, she was off Sheringham, she was...
A Gallant Rescue of Bathers
ON the evening of 21st June, 1938, two women bathers at Bettystown, Co.
Meath, Eire, were swept seaward on a rubber mattress by a strong offshore wind. The sea was choppy. Several men went at once to their rescue....
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (2)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 10.10 on the morning of the 15th of February, 1951, several local fishing boats were seen in difficulties making for North Sun- derland harbour in a heavy swell and a light easterly...
New Ways of Raising Money
The skippers of Aberdeen trawlers who are rewarded by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland when they recover tagged fish give their rewards to the R.N.L.I. They direct the Department to send the money to the honorary...
Category: Donations
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths; JULY 1988: John Drew, mechanic of Penlee lifeboat from 1938 to 1970 and assistant mechanic from 1933.
He was awarded a bronze medal in 1947.
NOVEMBER 1988:...
Category: Obituaries
A Civil Service Life-Boat for Wales
FOR many years there have been Civil Service life-boats on the coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland, but up to the present there has been none on the coast of Wales. As it was the wish of the committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund...
Category: Articles