LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (6)
On the 14th November, 1939, the Yarmouth life-boat rescued the crew of twelve of one of H.M. Trawlers. Coxswain Walter O. Cotton was awarded the silver medal.
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
STRONSAY, ORKNEY ISLANDS.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat Station at Stronsay in order to strengthen the Life-boat service in the Orkney Islands.
The new Life-boat is of the Watson type,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 12th January, 1893, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
Letters
Branding reviewviews for Issue No 563 has arrived and read; an excellent issue, presentation and contents.
It has a great practical and interesting 'buzz' about it all.
The Lifeboat College must...
Category: Correspondence
Letters
Fraserburgh lifeboat My son Jim and I were two of the people rescued by Fraserburgh lifeboat last summer when the yacht Blanche got into trouble in a force 8 gale. We were most impressed by both the efficiency and humanity of the coxswain...
Category: Correspondence
Books (Including Tim Batstone's Windsurfing Advice)
• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.
Should an organisation so...
Category: Articles
Two Exhibitions
Ax exhibition of life-boats through the ages was opened at Life-boat House, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, by Commodore the Earl Howe, deputy chairman of the Institution, on the 3rd of December, 1954.
The exhibition...
Category: Articles
Twickenham and District Branch Held a 'Thank Yon Evening' for All Their Friends and Helpers at the British Motor Yacht Club Last November After a Cheese Salad And
Twickenham and District Branch held a 'Thank Yon Evening' for all their friends and helpers at the British Motor Yacht Club last November. After a cheese salad and wine supper came entertainment by international cabaret artists Joy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
Category: Articles