LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST [OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1908) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal life-saving.
Category: Awards
Boats & Bits
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Category: Advertisement
James King Presents a Cheque to David Brann
James King presents a cheque to David Brann. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Hutchings' Scrapbooks
IN the early hours of 24th March, 1964, the Sennen Cove life-boat Susan Ashley rescued the crew of the French trawler Victoire Roger from under the cliffs at Land's End. The coxswain was awarded a bronze second service clasp for...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th May, 1887.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter
THE first number of THE LIFE-BOAT appeared in March, 1852. The first editorial began: 'If there be one subject more than another that might be expected to com- mand the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great...
Category: Articles
Difficult Cliff Operation
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain C. J.
Crockford and crew of the Tenby, Pembrokeshire, life-boat for the...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Work Across the Channel
IT is very gratifying to observe that the French Life-boat Society continues steadily to extend its beneficent operations on the broad basis of the system of the English NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the ap- probation of which by our...
Category: Articles
New £70,000 Life-Boat
With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...
Category: Articles
Opening the New Life-Boat House at Cullercoats
FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
Category: Articles