LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
November Gales. Launches of Life-Boats 26th—30th November, 1954
Life-boat Friday 26th Lerwick Aldeburgh Filey Yarmouth, I.o.W.
Valemia Saturday 27th Fishguard Southend-on-Sea Lizard Newhaven St. David's Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued S.S. Granfoss ' 23 Trawler Pinguin 12 8...
Category: Services
Don Moore and Bill James from Pontypridd Branch
Don Moore and Bill James from Pontypridd branch (pictured left in RNLI jackets) went on a 'sponsored spirit sprint' to Jamesons whisky distillery in the Irish Republic - raising over £1,000 for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Workers Honoured
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.
Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given...
Category: Awards
A Wreck on the Cornish Coast
WE have, on a previous page, given an account of the loss of valuable lives occasioned by an accident to a life-boat. The following is an interesting'and affecting narrative of the loss of a valuable life, illustrative of another phase...
Category: Articles
Two Fine Services
Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Life- boat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
Category: Services
H.M. Trawler Caulonia
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
Lifeboats In Action
Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...
Category: Services
Contents
Contents RNLI News. 75 Volume L Number 498 Lifeboat Services. 77 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL The RNLI in Ireland, by Edward Wake-Walker 83 Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Waiting for Rescue part II, by J. D....
Category: Contents
The Cyprus-Registered Cargo Vessel Retriever (1)
TWO BOATS AT SEA FOR A TOTAL OF 13 HOURS Escort for listing cargo boat in 70 knot winds Sennen Cove and Clovelly - South West Division Sennen Cove's relief Rother The Davys Family was launched in winds gusting up to 71 knots on 25 March...
New Appointments
Mr. D. H. ROFF has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution in succession to Mr. Stirling Whorlow.
Mr. Roff, who was born in 1902, joined the Institution in 1919. He worked for a number of years in the Chief...
Category: Committee