LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Truganini
Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
STRONSAY, ORKNEY ISLANDS.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat Station at Stronsay in order to strengthen the Life-boat service in the Orkney Islands.
The new Life-boat is of the Watson type,...
Category: Articles
Commander F R H Swann Rnvr Chairman of the Committee of Management Received the Cbe from Hm the Queen on On March 19 It Being London Flag Day He
Commander F. R. H. Swann, RNVR, Chairman of the Committee of Management, received the CBE from HM the Queen on on March 19. It being London flag day, he bought his flag outside Buckingham Palace.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLFs lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services carried...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Lottery To comply with Gaming Act requirements it was necessary to draw the 36th national lottery outside Poole headquarters for the very first time. The reason for this was that the date for the draw, January 31, fell on a Saturday. It did...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths.
May 1979 Robert Johnson, motor mechanic of Longhope lifeboat from 1929 to 1965.
Bob Johnson first went out in the lifeboat in 1916 and served...
Category: Obituaries
In June a Spanish Life-Boat Delegation, Led By the Conde De Toreno, President of the Spanish Red Cross Society, Visited England. Here the Party Is Pictured at Life-Boat House, London, With (Left T
In June a Spanish life-boat delegation, led by the Conde de Toreno, president of the Spanish Red Cross Society, visited England. Here the party is pictured at Life-boat House, London, with (left to right) Captain Nigel Dixon, Secretary of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Long Service Awards
THE LONG SERVICE BADGE, introduced from January 1, 1982, for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more, has been awarded to: Barrow Shore Helper F. Moore, BEM Barry Dock Second Coxswain G. D. Thomas...
Category: Awards
Income and Expenditure for 1932
Life-boats :—• EXPENDITURE.
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New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberystwyth, Aldeburgh, Anstruther, Arbroath, Barra Island, Donaghadee,...
Category: Accounts
New Ways of Raising Money
A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...
Category: Donations