LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Boxed clever Gloucester's Flag Day is always held early in the year, when the weather can be guaranteed to be inclement. This year's collecting went on during a blizzard of snow! Determined to keep the chill wind from my feet and...
Category: Correspondence
The Duchess of Kent at the Depot (1)
THE Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the Institution's depot at Boreham Wood on the 9th of November. She was received by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the committee of management, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown,...
Category: Committee
A Bronze Medal Service at Moelfre
ABOUT one-fifteen in the morning of 24th October last a message came from the coastguard to the life-boat station at Moelfre, Anglesey, that a vessel was in distress N.N.E. of Point Lynas. A whole gale was blowing from north by east, and a...
Category: Services
Here and There
FOLLOWING THE RESCUE OH August 12 of a student who had fallen over cliffs at Petit Tor, Torbay ambulance divisional commander, John Bourne, told Torbay honorary secretary, Captain Barry Anderson, how impressed he was with the way the ILB...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Thurso- Arun class The Queen Mother On Wednesday 9 August Thurso's new Arun class lifeboat The Queen Mother was overshadowed by the presence at Scrabster Harbour of her namesake, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who had so...
Category: Inaugurations
The American Ship Annie E Hooper
At daylight on the 20th Oc- tober, the American ship, Annie E. Hooper, was first seen to be ashore on the Horse ! Bank, from Southport, distant five miles.
The life-boat there was at once launched, j and after much...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated &y Royal Charter.') FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
Category: Advertisement
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor Mrs. W. D. Gale has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help she has given to the life-boat service as honorary secretary of the West Cowes ladies' life-boat...
Category: Awards
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME the RNLI has awarded a gallantry medal for a rescue from an oil rig. The rig involved, Orion, was on tow from Rotterdam to Brazil when she went aground on the Guernsey coast. The rescue operation was in some respects of a...
Category: Articles
A Converted Volkswagen Beetle
Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had...