LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months previously ; and it was also the first...
Category: Services
Chairman Praises All for Their Efforts
CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Services
Withernsea East Division HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TEST LIFEBOAT TO LIMITS Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seas John Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal...
Category: Services
The Duke of Northumberland's Competition Prize Essay
THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
Category: Articles
November
Launches 62 Lives rescued 8
NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set...
Category: Services
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
Matthew Lethbridge Jnr Bem: Coxswain of St.Mary's Lifeboat By Joan Davies
THE ONLY LIFEBOATMAN AT PRESENT SERVING TO HAVE BEEN AWARDED THREE SILVER MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY by Joan Davies 'Grandfather . . . he was coxswain before Dad; and my Uncle Jim and Dad were both in the lifeboat with...
Category: Articles
After the Hurricane
THE hurricane-force winds which caused so much damage in the south of England last October resulted in a dozen launches by lifeboats in the area affected by the storm, with three of the services leading to medal awards.
The...
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Recent Demonstrations
ABERDEEN.—The first Life-boat demon- stration in aid of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in Aberdeen was held on Thursday, the 6th July, the "Royal Wedding Day." It had been originally intended to have a " LIFE-BOAT...
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At the Limits
Each year's Annual Presentation of Awards provides an opportunity for an informal discussion on some of the medal services, the lifeboats involved and other aspects of lifeboat work. The day after the presentation of the medals in London...
Category: Articles