LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medical Arrangements In the Rnli: Part 1 History By Geoffrey Hale Mbe Mb BCh
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN instances of medical men serving on the Committee of Management in years gone by, and many occasions when doctors on the coast have given valuable service, there was never a centrally planned policy on medical...
Category: Articles
Sea Victor and Prairie Schooner (1)
Exhausted yachtsmen BRONZE MEDAL THE YACHT Sea Victor, built in Germany during the 1930s, had sailed from Exmouth on the morning of Friday May 2, 1986, on passage to Guernsey. By the evening of the following day after a rough crossing the...
Mr Charles Noden, of Blackpool
By the death, on 16th April, of Mr.
Charles Noden, of Blackpool, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a very warm friend and devoted worker. He was a firm advocate of the Life-boat Cause, and his cheery personality...
Category: Obituaries
Deeside
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At two o'clock on the morning of the 1st of February, 1956, a message was re- ceived that the steam trawler Deeside, of Milford Haven, was sending out SOS messages on her wireless ten miles...
Kieran Cotter Has Been Coxswain of Baltimore Lifeboat
Kieran Cotter has been coxswain of Baltimore lifeboat since 1989, having first joined the crew in 1975.
He was awarded a Bronze Medal in 1991 in recognition of his determination, skill and fine seamanship when the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Award By the King of Norway to the Tynemouth Life-Boat Men
IT is very gratifying to be able to record that H.M. the King of Norway awarded a piece of silver plate to Robert Smith, the Coxswain of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, and conferred Silver Medals and diplomas on the other...
Category: Awards
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th July, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Passed the following resolution :— " The Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION,...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services
West Division Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital...
Category: Services
Heckler of Cullen
The boat was also out doing goodwork on the 25th of the same month.
At midnight, lighted torches having been observed from some vessel in the bay during a fearful gale from N.N.W., with snow showers, the...
Autumn
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — A message having been received by telephone from the Gunfleet light-house on the 7th February, the crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company were summoned, and at 3.45 A.M. the boat was launched. She proceeded...