LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Last word
The Summer months have proved to be a busy time for our lifesavers – as many of our supporters’ emails show.
'It happened in seconds'
On Wednesday 24 July my son, Tad...
Category: Articles
Life-Belts and Swimming
WE have, in previous Numbers of this Journal, advocated the use of life-belts, both on shipboard and in boats, especially in life- boats; and we have recommended the ac- quirement of the art of swimming by every one. As we think the subject...
Category: Articles
At the Limits
Each year's Annual Presentation of Awards provides an opportunity for an informal discussion on some of the medal services, the lifeboats involved and other aspects of lifeboat work. The day after the presentation of the medals in London...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Ceremony
TUESDAY MAY 21, 1985 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: A.M.
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS: P.M.
There was much to please RNLI supporters in what the Institution's chairman, the Duke of Atholl, had to say in his two...
Category: Meetings
Annual General Meeting. Life-Boatmen Were Honoured
Life-Boatmen Were Honoured During 1964 rescue craft of the Royal National Life-boat Institution received more service calls than in any year since the foundation of the Institution in 1824. This was reported by Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham...
Category: Meetings
Foreign Decorations for British Life-Boatmen
Longhope IN Kirkwall Town Hall, in the Orkneys, on 22nd July, with the Provost in the chair, Captain J. D. Daintree, C.B.E., R.N. (Inspector-General of Coast Guard), presented to Second Coxswain W.
Mowat and the Crew of the...
Category: Awards
Yacht Ilona
The Life-boat William Erie was called in a moderate N.E. wind but thick fog, soon after midnight on the 26—27th January, by a telephone message, which reported a steamer was ashore at St. Alban's Head.
The vessel proved...
Stephanie Jane
Four saved from MFV among rocks in hurricane-force gustsCoxswain David Chant of the St Davids lifeboat, Dyfed, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of four fishermen in severe gales on 26...
Close Up
cLose up meet the family Building a strong and happy family can be a tough task for anyone but this is exactly what The Lifeboat College is attempting to do for the RNLI. Four members of this charity ‘family’ tell Liz Cook and Carol...
Category: Articles
Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1905
SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 609) £. s. d. £. ». d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 36 16 6 Dunnett Widows and Orphans Fund 126 4 6 Reardon Samaritan Fund 133 10...
Category: Accounts