Richard Evans BEM: a legendary lifeboatman It is with great sadness that theLifeboat reports the death of Richard Evans, aged 96, coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat from 1954 to 1970 and holder of two RNLl Gold Medals.
As well as...
Category: Obituaries
Stromness, Orkneys.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a sick woman to Scapa, who needed hospital treatment in Kirkwall, as the road to Kirkwall from Stromness...
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 13th August, during a fresh wind from the S.E., the British Workman Lifeboat, on this Station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Zurich, of North Shields, which had stranded o u Hasborongh...
FOR SHORELINE this year's London International Boat Show was the best ever: through the efforts of the band of voluntary workers who gave up a fortnight of their time to help us we signed on 1,153 new members, and I would like to thank...
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" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...
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NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...
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THE Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have now for many years had the problem before their mind of the suc- cessful employment of a motor in a Life-boat, so as to assist by mechanical means, and thus relieve...
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen.
THE new Porthdinllaen Motor Lifeboat was named on 12th August by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.
D.B.E., J.P., President of the South' Caernarvonshire Branch...
Category: Inaugurations
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED 1824 SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Doctor to baby AN URGENT MESSAGE was received by Niton Radio at 2323 on Sunday August 21, 1983, from a yacht in the Solent reporting that a baby girl aboard, 15 months old, was desperately ill. Solent Coastguard advised the yacht, which was...