LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1897
Jan. 6 —A. man put off in a boat from Tenby and rescued two of the crew of the fishing-b at Rajah, of Brixham, which stranded outride Tenby Harbour in a moderate gale from S.E.
and a very heavy sea.—Reward,...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
Mr. FRANCIS LE BOULANGER, honorary secretary of the Mumbles branch, has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services which he has rendered to the...
Category: Awards
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUCKIE.—At 9 A.M. on the 7th Aug. last a pilot-boat put off to bring the schooner Sen Aigen, coal laden from Sunderland, into the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a rough sea. The pilot boarded the vessel and the boat proceeded...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
People and Places
Comedian Les Dennis, who was appearing in 'Don't Dress for Dinner' at the Pier Theatre in Bournemouth, drew the winning tickets of the RNLI's 62nd national lottery at the Pier Approach on 31 July...
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Category: Advertisement
Our Merchant Seamen
THE Committee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society have published the following additional appeal on behalf of the establishment of an Asylum or Hospital, for aged Mariners at Belvedere, near Gravesend.
A...
Category: Committee
Plymouth's Lifeboats 1803-1974 By Jeff Moiris
FROM PULLING 'ORIGINAL' TO HIGH SPEED 'FAST AFLOAT' WAVENEYPLYMOUTH, host city for the first International Lifeboat Exhibition, 'Lifeboat International', from July 19 to August 17, was one of the 31 stations to have a...
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Painting 'The Lynmouth Lifeboat Service 1899' By Mark R Myers Rsma
MY INTEREST IN PAINTING an incident from the famous Lynmouth lifeboat service to Forrest Hall goes back to the time when I was boatswain in the little square-rigged replica of Nonsuch ketch.
We were on passage from Falmouth...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, llth June, 1896.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee