LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held on the 26th ultimo, and was presided over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that the Fund had continued to...
Category: Meetings
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and present- ed with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the .Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
Category: Awards
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Category: Advertisement
A Governor of the Institution 15- Year-Old Nigel Rankin on Board Whitby Lifeboat Nigel Came to the Rnli Stand at the Boat Show With Over £10 He Had Saved from His Pock
A governor of the Institution, 15- year-old Nigel Rankin, on board Whitby lifeboat. Nigel came to the RNLI stand at the Boat Show with over £10 he had saved from his pocket money to join Shoreline.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Old Life-Boat Station at South Sands from Which the William and Emma Set Out In 1916 and (right) the Names of the 13 Local Life-Boatmen Who Perished In the Disaster
The old life-boat station at South Sands from which the William and Emma set out in 1916 and (right) the names of the 13 local life-boatmen who perished in the disaster. It was Richard Durant, of Sharpham, Totnes, who gave Salcombe its first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Michael Grant Joined Selsey Lifeboat Crew In 1960 and Was Second Coxswain from 1972 Until 1978 When He Was Appointed Coxswain; He Was Awarded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vell
Michael Grant joined Selsey lifeboat crew in 1960 and was second coxswain from 1972 until 1978 when he was appointed coxswain; he was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1978 and the silver medal in 1979.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Life-boat 70-002 on passage - At 10.50 a.m. on 7th November, 1968, while the Grace Paterson Ritchie life-boat was on passage to Westray, the coastguard told the coxswain that the doctor on Rousay had requested the assistance of the lifeboat...
Ocean Gain
FIREMEN ON BOARD North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the evening of i6th October, 1963, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had been told that two vessels had been in collision in Newton Bay and that one...
Careful Call Out
On 27 May, Aberdovey lifeboat crew faced a 4m breaking swell in their B class Sandwell Lifeline to rescue a windsurfer who was drifting out to sea in force 6 conditions.
He was spotted by someone on the shore. Crew Member...
Category: Articles
Keeping Watch
Portsmouth lifeboat volunteers Peter Slidel and Tina Parkinson were going about their daily lives on 27 February when a drama started to unfold before them.
Peter says: ‘I was enjoying a coffee at Tina’s burger van when I...
Category: Articles