LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Beach volunteers save life
RNLI lifeguards on Fistral Beach, Cornwall, volunteered to carry out weekend patrols without pay last Winter. It was a good job they were there on 7 November 2010, when a bodyboard instructor carried out a headcount after leaving the water –...
Category: Articles
Oakley Tribute
Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A., the life-boat designer, who last year retired from full-time service with the Institution, received a letter in November, 1966, from Coxswain W. Sheader, of the Scarborough lifeboat J. G. Graves of...
Category: Correspondence
Italian Honour for St. Mary's, Scilly
THE Italian Government lias recog- nised the gallantry of the Life-boat Crew at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, and of the others who took part in the rescue of the crew of the Italian steamer Iscibo on 27th October, 1927, by the award of...
Category: Awards
The Winston Churchill
IN January, 1948, the latest life-boat provided by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, a 46-feet Watson cabin boat, went to Blyth in Northumberland.
She is one of eight Civil Service motor life-boats now in the fleet. Since...
Category: Inaugurations
The Keen Minister
In acknowledging the R.N.L.I.'s thanks for his services as chaplain to the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter, the Rev. George Waddington, who is taking up a new appointment at Paisley, is further offering his...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
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 entitled to them by the Institution's regulations...
Category: Awards
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Category: Advertisement
What's on this Summer
With warmer weather and longer days finally here, RNLI stations are preparing for their Summer festivities. See you there!
Portpatrick Lifeboat Week
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Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1910
Jan. 13.—Five men put off in a boat for the purpose of saving the crew of the smack Margaret Ann, of Fishguard, which stranded in a moderate W.N.W. gale and rough sea, off Bumham, on the 1st December, 1909.—Reward, 11. 10s. Also 18s. to...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat People
Laurie Prynn, who had been a member of Salcombe lifeboat crew for some 16 years, regularly, from 1961 to 1978, gave about ten lectures a year to cadet members of the Island Cruising Club; in all he must have talked to some 7,000 youngsters...
Category: Articles