LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituaries
Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Marjofie Berry Falmouth guild president Hugh Bryan Chew Valley branch former chairman Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) Andrew Forbes Former...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Essay Competition. Presentation of the Prizes in the London District
Presentation of the Prizes in the London District. LAST year, for the first time, the presentation of the prizes won in this com- petition in the London area (consistingof the schools under the London County Council) took place at one...
Category: Articles
The Thames Church Mission
THERE are few sailors in the habit of trading to the river who will not be acquainted with the Swan, a dandy-rigged cutter, that serves as the Thames Floating Church, and may generally be seen lying alongside one of the sections of colliers...
Category: Articles
Rnli News
Awards to Lifeboatmen Alan Thomas, coxswain of the Tenby lifeboat, has won the Maud Smith Award for 'the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman' during 1989.
The award follows the lifeboat's rescue...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Address your letters to: The Editor, The Lifeboat, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ or email us at: [email protected] All submissions should be clearly marked 'for publication' In reply to the letter from GM Reid...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Classified
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Category: Advertisement
Dirk II
Selsey, Sussex.—At 5.34 on the after- noon of the 14th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to pass on a report that a yacht appeared to be in distress about one mile off shore between East Wittering and Bracklesham Bay. The life-boat...
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
Seaman's Cartoonist Extraordinary Carl Giles Receiving His Lifeboatman Statuette for Outstanding Service to the Rnli In the Field of Public Relations from the Duke of Atholl
Seaman's Cartoonist extraordinary, Carl Giles, receiving his lifeboatman statuette for outstanding service to the RNLI in the field of public relations from the Duke of Atholl.
photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs