LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
ON the closing of the Burnham Life-boat Station the following awards were made :— To FREDERICK J. KING, who served for 5 1/2 years as Coxswain, 4 1/2 years as Bowman, and previously 30 years as a member of the Crew, a Coxswain's...
Category: Awards
The Cross Channel Ferry Purbeck
Sick man aboard ferry AT 1300 on the afternoon of Thursday October 4, 1984, Poole's 33ft Brede class lifeboat. Inner Wheel, launched on service after the cross channel ferry, Purbeck, reported she had a man aboard with severe abdominal...
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
J. P. McDonough N. Pendlebury Galway Bay C. Hernon to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those...
Category: Awards
James Bryce Allan
Mr. James Bryce Allan, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1930, died on the 12th of May, 1960. He had served on the Construction and General Purposes Committees of the Institution.
Mr. Allan was a...
Category: Obituaries
The Fundraisers
Bruno backs the lifeboats Harwich lifeboatmen had a very special visitor in August, when Frank Bruno came to town promoting the wacky gameshow 'It's a Knockout'. The former heavyweight boxing champ was backing the RNLI's...
Category: Articles
Hayling Island - Double Silver Medal Service, 25 October 1992. the Photograph Shows the Difficult and Hazardous Conditions In Which the Rescue Took Place. Coa
Hayling Island - double silver medal service, 25 October 1992. The photograph shows the difficult and hazardous conditions in which the rescue took place.
Coastguard helicopter attempting to pass a hi-line to the crew of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Thanks of the Air Ministry.
The Air Council wrote on 18th March, 1941, "To convey their thanks to the Institution for their continued and valuable work in aiding the rescue of airmen who have been forced to land in the sea." The letter went on, "The...
Category: Articles
36-Foot Motor Self-Bailing, Self-Righting Life-Boat, U.S. Coast Guard
36-Foot Motor Self-Bailing Self-Righting Life-Boat US Coast Guard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
With the Help of Post Office Telephone
With the help of Post Office Telephone engineers and landowners, some thousands of metres of underground cable have been laid to ins/al an emergency telephone on the popular but isolated Cocklawburn Beach, two miles south of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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