LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hma: Robert Haworth MRCS Lrcp Da Eng of Barmouth
One of the key people at every lifeboat station is the honorary medical adviser, a local general practitioner who takes into his care the routine medical oversight of boat and crew and who, while not necessarily required by his appointment...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
Despite being so far away, the RNLI's Hong Kong branch works tirelessly to raise funds for the Institution.
The committee members were thrilled, therefore, when HRH The Duke of Kent, the Institution's president,...
Category: Donations
Fund Raisers
Fore! Over 100 members and guests of Sundridge Park Golf Club faced real lifeboating weather when they took part in a sponsored charity tournament in April, the idea of the men's and ladies' captains of the club, Vic and Bridie...
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Rescue
RESCUE D LifeBoAt CReW sAVes eAsteR BUNNy! Tobermory lifeboat crew had an unusual, yet appropriate, casualty to rescue on Easter Sunday in the form of a pet rabbit. Four adults, two children, a dog and the rabbit were onboard the yacht Blue...
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News from the Branches. 1st November, 1934, to 31st January, 1935
1st November, 1934, to 31st January, 1935.
Greater London.
CHELSEA.—Annual meeting on 29th January, General Sir Walter Braithwaite, G.C.B., Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea! patron of the branch,...
Category: Branches
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991, at the usual venue on the South Bank in London, with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 107. Lives rescued 38.
September Meeting.
Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a...
Category: Services
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (9)
OCTOBER
Launches 107. Lives rescued 107.
OCT. 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX, At about 4 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S. of Walton Pier, was flying...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1905
Jan. 12.—Three men saved, with moderate risk to themselves, the crew of four men from the fishing - bait Grace Veale, of St. Ives, which capsized in a moderate gale and heavy sea off St. Ives on the 5th December, 1904.— Reward, II....
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1953 78,410 Notes of the Quarter First Shore-boat Award of the Year Two...
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