LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Record Year for the Life-Boats
BOAT OWNERS were told the truth about salvage claims by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., at the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1967. He said it...
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The Salvors of Property on the English Coasts
« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.
THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...
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H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.
The death of the Duke of Kent in an air accident on August 2jth. is a very great loss to the life-boat service. Of all the members of the Royal Family who have been associated with it since its foundation none has taken a more generous and...
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The S.S. Editor
HOLYHEAD.—On the 22nd March, a steamer was reported to be on the rocks in the vicinity of the South Stack, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden proceeded at 3 A.M. to her assistance, in tow of a ste&mtug.
A very thick fog...
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.
He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he...
Category: Obituaries
Shore Boat Service to French Trawler
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been awarded to Coxswain Walter B. West, Assistant Motor Mechanic Ronald F. Twydle, and Cyril J. Barnicoat, shore...
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The Panamanian Steamer Aguila
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 11.47 on the night of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was in difficulties ten miles south-west of Bardsey Island. A very strong south-...
The Competitive Trials of Life-Boats
THE decision of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to carry out exhaustive trials -with different types of Life-boats is an additional proof to those already given in various "ways that the governing body are determined not to sit...
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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 7
AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
'THE Year of the Lifeboat', as 1974 is to be known, will be an occasion for everyone connected with the lifeboat service to feel both pride and humility.
A record of 150 years of voluntary service, as a result of...
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