LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services (Continued from Page 12)
(continued from page 12) accorded to Coxswain Ronald J. Hardy and Emergency Mechanic Phillip J.
Dorey. Vellum service certificates were presented to Second Coxswain/Motor Mechanic Victor A. C. Marsh, Assistant Mechanic Eric...
Category: Services
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 14 November 1988, show that so far in 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats had been launched 3,387 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,099 lives had been saved (an average of...
Category: Articles
Acteon
Dover, Kent.—At 3.10 on the after- noon of the 13th of July, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making heavy weather about a mile south-east of Leather- cotes. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.15 in a...
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Southwold and Dunwich ; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; Great Yarmouth and Gorlcston ; Montrose.
DURING the past summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of five Motor Life-boats have taken place. The first of these, the inauguration of...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boat Regulations January, 1865
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (6)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 15th June, 1923.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Elected His Grace the DUKE OF ATHOLL, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution.
Decided that the House of the...
Category: Committee
The Finnish Tramp Steamer Ramfdal
FINNISH STEAMER Dunbar, East Lothian. At noon on 27th May, 1964, a fisherman reported that a vessel had run ashore about three miles north of Dunbar. Twelve minutes later the life-boat Margaret put to sea.
There was a light...
Seven Times Alongside Listing Ship
On the evening of 9th November, 1969, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat was manoeuvred seven times alongside a severely listingJDanish ship, a service for which Coxswain John Bryan has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s bronze medal...
Category: Services