LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
Miss ALICE MARSHALL has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution, in recognition of her distinguished services as Honorary Secretary of the Oxford Branch.
To Mrs. WALTERS, in recognition of her valu- able...
Category: Awards
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Wednesday, 31st August, 1938.
PAID £29,787 9s. Sd. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Profiles
Mr R. Marr, of Dunbar, East Lothian, and Ex-Coxswain Calum Macdonald, of Stornoway, Outer HebridesMr Calum Macdonald, former coxswain of the Stornoway lifeboat, was one of three people to receive the freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at the...
Category: Articles
COMMUNITY NEWS
A roaring success
The Bikers Cove, neighbours and friends of RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station, hosted a custom bike show at the end of July – and it was certainly a 'triumph'. Over 400 bikers from all over...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The 30-feet Life-boat on this station has been re- placed by a new and larger boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, double banked. The cost of the new boat, with its transporting carriage, has been...
Category: Articles
North of England and Isle of Man Community News
Morecombe
Fantastic 5p fundraising
When 8-year-old Keegan Luraschi learned that RNLI lifeboat crew members are volunteers who count on public donations to save lives, he set his mind to doing all he...
Category: Articles
RNLI In Action
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. On the j 1st January, 1904, the Life-boat Kezia Gwilt rendered very useful service to the barque Faulconnier, of Dunkirk. ' During a strong breeze from E.S.E. and rough sea, with somewhat hazy weather, • the...
Category: Services
The 24ft Cabin Cruiser Tomey Too
Overdue HAYLING ISLAND POLICE received a telephone call from a lady in Berkshire at 0330 on Tuesday January 3 to say that her husband and son had not returned from a fishing trip. They had set out from Northney Marina at 1030 and had been...