LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli Annual Awards for 1973
EACH YEAR particular recognition is given to crew members taking part in conspicuous rescues, and in 1973 the RNLI annual awards were presented to lifeboatmen from Bridlington (Yorkshire), St Helier (Jersey) and Torbay...
Category: Awards
Barry Dock Lifeboat Station Has Very Close Links With Raf Kinloss
Barry Dock lifeboat station has very close links with RAF Kinloss, a friendship which began six years ago when Fl-Lt Tony Cowan and a colleague were testing a homing device they had invented. After a satisfactory completion of the trials, in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Polydena
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat at Caister assisted to save the Norwegian schooner Polydesa and her crew of 5 men, which vessel had stranded pn the Cross Sand,.
Hellena, of Alloa
The Miriam life-boat at Buckie rescued the crew of 4 men of the sloop Hellene, of Alloa, which became a total wreck off Buckie.
Naiad, of Colchester
The Parsee life-boat, at Palling, went out to the stranded schooner Naiad, of Col- chester, and remained alongside the vessel some time, rendering assistance.
A Fishing Boat (1)
Cromer, Norfolk.—27th July. A fishing boat capsized, and the two men on board were drowned before the lifeboat could reach her. (See September number of The Life-boat, page 318.)— Rewards, £7 11s..
Centenary Vellums
CENTENARY Vellums have been presented to a number of Stations during the present year, and reports of these Ceremonies'will appear in the next issue of The Lifeboat..
Category: Awards
From "Roundabout Horses."
THE Institution has received from a fair-ground in North London a gift of £2 sent to it " for the life-boat orphans," from the " steam galloping roundabout horses.".
Category: Donations
Thistle
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 9th September, 1962, the pilot at Troon harbour told the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was drifting close to Gailes shore. At 11.55 the life-boat James...