LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of Awardees
Since ihc last Annual Presentalion of Awards, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Life Governorships. 2 Records of Thanks. 5 Bar In Gold Badges and 76 Gold Badges. Awtinli't'. not inteniiini the APA ttiv shown with tin mfrmi...
Category: Awards
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's annual meetings - the AGM and Presentation of Awards - were held on 16 May at the Barbican, in the City of London, for the second year running. The 'new' venue provides enough space for the Institution to set up...
Category: Meetings
The Fishing Clipper, of Yarmouth
At 11 P.M., on the 24th January, 1868, guns were heard from the St. Nicholas Light Vessel, and lights of distress were seen in Yarmouth Roads. The large life-boat was at once got out, but the gale was so strong, and the weather so thick and...
Long-Standing Supporters of the R.N.L.I.
IN the June, 1968, number of THE LIFE-BOAT three companies which have given the R.N.L.I. valuable financial support over a number of years were mentioned.
Continuing the series, we describe three more...
Category: Donations
Services of the Life-Boats In November and December, 1952, and January and February, 1953. 112 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services
The Prince of Wales In a Motor Life-Boat
IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...
Category: Articles
Eastbourne Life-Boat Lands Sick Man from Tanker
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Category: Photographs
The Naming at Cowes of Rnlb Sir Max Aitken Ii
ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 STORNOWAY'S NEW 52FT ARUN LIFEBOAT WHEN PRINCESS ALEXANDRA named the new Stornoway lifeboat on Thursday February 23 it was a doubly historic occasion for, almost 30 years before, her mother the Duchess of Kent,...
Category: Inaugurations
Gudveig of Oslo (1)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...
The Life-Boat Man
LIKE the he . t of a woman (pathetic and tender), Tet stalwart and strong, with a soul ever true: Alert with pure courage his service to render— These are the men in the jerseys of blue.
For whenever the storm with its...
Category: Poetry