LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1862
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and 51. to Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, the master of the smack Volunteer, of Harwich. Also the Silver Medal and 21. to each of the 5 men who went off in the smack's boat to the wreck; and the...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies - continued from page 55
Relief Fleet - Atlantic 75 Susan PeacockWednesday 21 April 1993 saw the naming of the first of a new inshore lifeboat design, the Atlantic 75. Developed from the highly successful Atlantic 21 which has been in operation since 1972, the name...
Category: Annual Reports
The Royal Bank of Scotland
In an Raises money every time you spend* emergency No annual fee our volunteers Interest - free period of up to 56 days rely on this Up to £100 cash back on transferred balances from other credit and store cards** piece of...
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Naming of the Rnlb Newsbuoy
Saturday September 29, 1984 ON A BRIGHT, early autumn day, one of the RNLI's newest lifeboats lay afloat, bedecked and sparkling, awaiting her naming ceremony. An ordinary enough scene for those familiar with such occasions but this...
Category: Inaugurations
A Sailboard
Enjoyable sail turns into near disaster Windsurfer Christopher Long was out enjoying a brisk sail last September when gear failure disabled his board and he spent three hours in the water. When Eastbourne's inshore lifeboat picked him up...
From the Director
I was very pleased to include a message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT last year, and I am delighted to do so again.
I mentioned last year various developments in lifeboat design which were being undertaken, and it is...
Category: Articles
Happy Bear
Three saved from yacht after long tow by Tyne in Storm Force windsCromer lifeboat coxswain Richard Davies has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal following the rescue of five people aboard the 30ft yacht Happy Bear off Cromer, Norfolk...
Royal Connections
RNLI crew members and fundraisers were among the guests at the Buckingham Palace garden party on 14 July. Rhyl Coxswain Peter Robinson (pictured meeting HM The Queen) says: ‘It was an honour for my wife and myself to attend and we thoroughly...
Category: Articles
Mother and son celebrate
Anne Noonan was 20 years old when she gave birth to her son aboard a merchant ship lying off the Cornish coast. The Fravizo had no doctor aboard so her Captain requested that Anne and baby Tim be taken ashore for a...
Category: Articles
Noblesse
A narrow escape for Dutch couple at DunbarLifeboatmen and Coastguards hauled a crew of two to safety from a grounded yacht, seconds before falling rocks destroyed the vessel A state-of-the-art £100,000 yacht, Noblesse, was entering...