NEVER probably in the history of our country has public feeling been so moved and sorrow so universally felt and ex- pressed as in the last few days, conse- quent on the almost sudden, and world- wide deplored death of the most beloved of...
Category: Articles
Naming and dedication Ceremonies Relief Fleet- Arun class Duke of Atholl The City Chambers at Dundee became the scene of great activity on Saturday 12 May 1990 when the Duke of Atholl's private army disembarked from buses and tuned their...
Category: Inaugurations
November and December 1995, January and February 1996 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: Nov 2, 21, Dec 31 and Jan 18 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jan 19 Relief Atlantic 21: Feb 21 Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Relief Atlantic 75: Nov 26,...
Category: Services
On Monday 22 October 2007 I accepted an invitation from Skegness Coxswain John Irving to join some training. By 5.30pm the waterproof tractor was attached to the carriage and the Mersey class lifeboat The Lincolnshire Poacher was towed out...
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The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Exmouth and Torbay, South Devon.— At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that the Devon County Constabulary had reported that two children who had gone out from Dawlish in a small boat had...
IN 1930 the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands, and placed there a 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat, the largest and most powerful type which it is now building. (A full description of this...
Category: Inaugurations
LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1906) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
Category: Awards
Thursday, llth May, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by Sir JOHN G. CUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., in the chair.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and the Hon.
George Colville were re-elected...
Category: Committee