LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs R H Robinson
In connection with the report on page 277 of the April Journal recording Mrs. R. H.
Robinson's retirement as the District Organising Secretary for the R.N.L.I, in the south east, it has been pointed out that she served,...
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The S.S. Gracehill
Early on the morning of the 9th of March, 1957, the Campbeltowrn life- boat rescued the crew of ten of the S.S.
Gracehill, of Belfast, who had taken to the ship's boats after she had gone aground in thick fog. For a...
Royal Humane Society Award
THE Royal Humane Society has awarded an " in memoriam" testimonial to relatives of the late George Hanson, formerly head launcher of the Runswick life-boat, who lost his life when going to the help of a schoolmaster and a number of...
Category: Awards
Temar
COLLECTIVE AWARD TO COXSWAIN AND CREW On the 8th of December, 1962, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat rescued one man and landed two men, two women and two children from the Dutch motor vessel Temar. For this service the thanks of the...
The Scarborough 37-Foot Oakley Life-Boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield
The Scarborough 37-foot Oakley life-boat /. G. Groves of Sheffield whose coxswain recently wrote to Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A.,the life-boat designer, who fast year retired from full-time service with the Institution, to tell him... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower
Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower This was the first of the Thames E class lifeboats to be named.
The money for the boat was raised by The Lifeboat Fund, which has been raising money for the RNLI for 140 years... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Longest Winter Service
THE annual award of a case of rum to the life-boat crew which has carried out the longest winter service has been made by the Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited to the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, lifeboat, for a...
Category: Services
S.S. Registan
MAY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
S.S. Registan, an auxiliary cruiser, was attacked and set on fire by four enemy aeroplanes, but the survivors were picked up by a motor boat from Sennen Cove and by...
Fishing Boat
JANUARY 15TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. A small Newbiggin fishing boat, bound from North Sunderland to Amble, had been reported overdue, but nothing could be found, and on the following day the boat was towed in by a Craster...
Bookshelf
No Day Too Long An Hydrographer's Tale by Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie published by the Pent/and Press at £15.50 ISBN 1 872795 63 3 The chart is such a commonplace item aboard a boat that it is often taken for granted. But spare a...
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