LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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An Example of Energy
THE following summary of eight months' work by a new honorary secretary, Miss G. Coventry, of Milford- on-Sea, Hampshire, deserves to be put on record.
A year ago Miss Coventry bought an old life-boat (the Mevagissey,...
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A bit of a drama
For the naval historian
The Complete Scrimgeour
– From Dartmouth to Jutland: 1913–16
by Alexander Scrimgeour
Review by Jason Hughes, Inshore Lifeboat Crew Member at RNLI Cowes Released to coincide...
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Captain Howard Rowley, R.N.
ALL who were connected with the Lifeboat Service twenty years ago will have heard with regret of the death, on the 4th -of April, of Captain Howard Fiennes Julius Rowley, C.B.E., R.N.
He was in his eightieth year, and it...
Category: Obituaries
Pensions, Etc. For Deserving Coxswains, Bowmen and Signalmen of Long Service
WITH the view if still farther recognising long, faithful and good service in the Life-boat cause, the Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION introduced on the 1st January 1 last a pension and gratuity scheme,...
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Norman Clarke
MARCH 1991 Norman Clarke, honorary life governor of the Institution. Mr Clarke became a flag day organiser in"Ne wport, Gwent in 1946 and held various positions with the Harwich branch, Southampton branch and ultimately as treasurer of...
Category: Obituaries
Andrea
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 11.40 p.m. on 15th June, 1968, thecoastguard told the coxswain that a cabin cruiser had broken down off Pistyll beach. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 12.5 a.m. on 16th June in a light...
Swimming Gala In Salford
THE City of Salford branch organized a Swimming Gala in celebration of the King's Silver Jubilee. The baths where it was held were lent and decorated with flowers by the Corporation. Mr.
L. B. Todd, secretary of the...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At noon on the 28th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ten-year-old boy had fallen from the top of a cliff a hundred and eighty feet high into the sea half a mile north- west of...
Elinor
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 9.30 in the morning a yacht was reported off the west coast in a dangerous position, but she was not showing any signal of distress. A south-west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. A...