IT GAVE ME great pleasure to be elected Chairman of the Institution at the meeting of the Committee of Management on June 28 in succession to Major- General Ralph Farrant. As I am sure you are all aware, he has left the Institution in...
Category: Committee
LETTERS of appreciation signed by the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., have been sent to the crew of the Eastney, Hampshire, IRB, Mr. J. Fletcher and Mr. R. Faro, for the rescue of two boys who were marooned off Southsea...
Category: Services
ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...
Category: Correspondence
Dover PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the president of the R.N.L.I., named the new Dover life-boat, Faithful Forester, at Dover on 26th July, 1967. The 44-foot steel boat was a gift from the Ancient Order of Foresters - the eighth to be...
Category: Inaugurations
With deep regret we record the following deaths: MARCH 1988: Mrs Marjorie Lambert, committee member and patron of Birmingham Branch from 1985 to 1988. She had previously been vice chairman of the Edgbaston and Harborne Ladies' Guild...
Category: Obituaries
PAGe tItLe RescUe FIVe ALIVe two miles from land, a group of kayakers was at the mercy of gale force offshore winds. How could they summon help and how long could they stay afloat? mairéad Dwane reports tHe DetAIL insHORe LiFeBOat B-789...
Category: Articles
Fully impressed as we are with the conviction that more life-boat stations, and improved organization of the boats already established, are the two most pressing wants on our coasts, we are gratified to be able to announce that since the...
Category: Articles
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
DURING April, May, June and July the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recogni- tion of their services in the cause of the Institution:— To Mr. S. J. R. LEGEHTON, on his...
Category: Awards
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...