LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1866
This large number of 714 lives is entirely independent of the 180 lives saved by the rocket apparatus, which is worked by the Coastguard, and provided by the Board of Trade, who continue to co-operate heartily and zealously with the NATIONAL...
Category: Meetings
SERVICES: Exhausting Cliff Service
THK Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was ordered to be launched...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 20th November, 1930.
SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair.
Passed Votes of Thanks to H.M. the KING and QUEEN, H.R.H. the PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., and H.R.H. the PRINCESS LOUISE, DUCHESS OF...
Category: Committee
Svanen
The Wexford harbour master informed the life-boat authorities on the evening of the 15th November that the four- masted motor vessel Svanen, of Copen- hagen, was aground on Wexford Bar.
She had a crew of eight on board, and...
Lifeboat People
In the New Year Honours List, the BEM was awarded to Frank Moore, motor mechanic of Barrow lifeboat since 1954. He was assistant motor mechanic at Barrow from 1937 to 1953.
* * * It is with deep regret that we announce the...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths JUNE 1989: Eric Offer, coxswain/mechanic of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat from 1967 until his death.
Coxswain Offer was awarded a bronze medal in 1969.
JULY 1989:...
Category: Obituaries
Wales Community News
Beaumaris
Menai boat run sets new record
Now in its 10th year, East Cheshire Sub-Aqua Club’s Menai Boat Run had a record turnout in March for its weekend of diving and fun – with 278 divers and 35 boats...
Category: Articles
Launching and Recovery—Part I: Slipway Stations By Edward Wake- Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
IN THE ACCOUNT of the service by Padstow lifeboat to the coaster Skopelos Sky which appeared in the summer edition of the journal, there was an unusual addendum. Unlike most reports that begin with words to the effect that 'the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
The Isle of Man Revisited
The RNLI's Assistant PRO Robin Sharp visited the Isle of Man, the Institution's 'ancestral home' and examined how the island's lifeboat service is being adapted to the new generation of lifeboats… At could be said that...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November and December, 1937, and January, 1938, Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—For a service on 5th August, 1937. See page 429.
Guernsey, Channel Islands.—During the afternoon of the 1st October, 1937, the steamer Briseis, of Rouen, struck the...
Category: Services