LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Service to North Sea Oil Rig
THE members of the crews of the Scarborough and Teesmouth life-boats have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for their services on the...
Category: Services
Special Gifts
"All my Pocket-Money." ONE shilling and threepence has been received from a little boy of Greenford, Middlesex, with a letter saying, " This is all my pocket-money; best wishes." No Tips! A cook-housekeeper working in...
Category: Donations
In Fog Off Chesil Beach
ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...
Category: Services
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentations of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Presentations of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
THREE life-boat stations have cele- brated their centenaries this year: Berwick-on-Tweed, the Mumbles, Gla- morganshire, and Ferryside, Carmar- thenshire. In each...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
A Life-Boat Diary
The Duchess of Kent in North Wales Aberystwyth and Barmouth Stations Visited THE Duchess of Kent made a two-day tour through North Wales on the llth and 12th of July. Her tour was comprehensive; she visited places like the National Library...
Category: Articles
Fourteenth International Lifeboat Conference Gothenburg By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
HUMANITY . . . courage . . . dedication.
These words must have equivalents in every language and they were used repeatedly by delegates from all over the world at the fourteenth International Lifeboat Conference (ILC) in...
Category: Articles
The Gales of May and June
THE winter of 1859-60 will command a mournful distinction in meteorological annals. Other winters may be found, perhaps, of equal severity and duration ; nor would it be difficult, we dare say, to produce examples of springs as backward as...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (4)
Launches 18. Lives rescued 30.
MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
1st April to 30th June.
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON. — Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild at the house of the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the...
Category: Branches