As reported in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT the Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning - the Norwegian Life-boat Institution - is celebrating its 75th anniversary this month.
Commander F. R. H. Swann, R.N.V.R., a deputy...
Category: Medals
Margate, Kent - At 9.39 p.m. on nth July, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v.
Lady Sheena, near the east Margate buoy, required medical assistance. At 9.51 a further message requested that the lifeboat take a doctor to the...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.55 on the night of the 17th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on Goat Island in Stornoway Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out...
Group Captain G. Griffith, secretary of Ruthin branch. Group Captain Griffith became secretary of the branch soon after joining in 1968 - he relinquished the position in 1987 but remained on the committee. He was awarded a Silver badge in...
Category: Obituaries
Carl Palmby, awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum together with an inscribed wristwatch, holding a medallion presented to him by the Southern Gas Angling Society of which the man he rescued on February 27, 1981, is a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr J Norman Wilkinson DSC, chairman of the Howth station branch. Mr Wilkinson was elected to the committee in 1950, honorary secretary from 1958 to 1987 and chairman in 1988. He was made an honoray life governor in 1987 and was awarded the...
Category: Obituaries
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.3 on the morning of the llth of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress signals had been fired from a yacht between Worthing and Lancing. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
Dover, Kent.—At 1.12 on the aftefc noon of the 19th of May, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the South Goodwin lightvessel hadreported a boat drifting three quarters of a mile north-north-west of the lightvessel. At 1.30 the...
Margate, Kent. At 12.43 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties off Birchington and that one of her crew was waving an oar to attract...
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 9 a.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard reported that a rowing boat was in difficulties off the Links road. At 9.10 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings in a fresh south westerly wind with...