LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 13TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 7 P.M. a local fisherman reported to the pier watchman that R.A.F. rescue boat No. 244, with a crew of four, had fouled the nets of a fishing boat off Lee Bay.

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OCT. 18TH. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A message was received at 7.25 P.M. from the R.A.F. that two of their speedboats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head, and the motor lifeboat was launched with the help of soldiers.

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50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, October 1938 issue A New Medal for Gallantry SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals,...

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PATRON HIS ROYAL  HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALKS.

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Island Visit Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, was a guest of Brigadier S. P. Robertson of the Committee of Management, at his home on the island of Orkney for four days in August. He arrived aboard Kirkwall'...

IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: February, 1984 Edgar William Garrad, formerly chief draughtsman, who retired in 1964 after 39 years service.

October, 1984 Mr R. H. Jones, honorary secretary of...

THESE rules, which are to come into effect on the 1st of November, were signed I a few days ago by Sir MICHAEL HICKSBEACH, and have just been presented to j Parliament. They are certainly of a most elaborate character—it is difficult to see...