LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Island Commodore
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—About nine o'clock on the night of the 25th of August, 1950, the M.V. Island Commo- dore reported that her engine had broken down three miles north-east of Platte Fougere Point, but that she did not need...
George jumps at 97!
A 97-year-old man from Bournemouth is believed to have become the UK’s oldest skydiver after jumping out of a plane at 3,000m for the RNLI.
George Moyse jumped, in a tandem dive with an instructor, on 4 April. His grandson...
Category: Articles
Flexible tribute funds
An RNLI Forever by the Sea fund is a positive and powerful way to honour the life of someone special who has passed away. Friends and family can donate in memory of their loved one, for example on a birthday or anniversary, and watch the...
Category: Articles
Cententary at Gorleston
A FRAMED letter signed by Capt. the Hon. H. M. Wyndham-Quin, Chairman of the Committee of Management, expressing the Institution's appreciation of the voluntary work of the officers and committee and of the devotion and courage of the...
Category: Articles
Amy
At 6.20 P.M. on the 25th April the Life-boat Charles Arkcoll was launched in a heavy sea and blinding snowstorm to the assistance of the barge Amy, of London. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, and the barge had lost her top-mast and...
News from the Branches
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The Annual Meeting was held on 15th March, Lady Montgomery, the Chairman of the Committee, presiding.
The annual report for the year ended 30th September, 1921, -which was pre- sented to...
Category: Branches
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th OCTOBER, 1908.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., O.M.G., in the Chair.
Colonel Fitzroy CLAYTON, V.P., who for the last twenty-five years had been the Deputy Chairman, was unanimously appointed...
Category: Committee
Naming Ceremonies (1)
EIGHT new motor life-boats were named during the summer of 1949, two on the English coast, at Swanage and East- bourne, three on the Welsh coast, at New Quay (Cardigan), Barmouth, and Porthdinllaen, two in Northern Ireland, at Portrush and...
Category: Inaugurations
J H Minet Life and Pensions Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
The Joint Services Training Yacht Kukri, and Zingana
Rescue by fishermen A NORTH-EASTERLY NEAR GALE, force 7, gusting to force 8 was blowing and the sea in St Mary's Harbour, Isles of Scilly, was rough when at about 1625 on the afternoon of Tuesday May 22, 1984, the joint services training...