LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.
The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...
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Change of Address
FROM 1st June, 1931, the address of the Institution is— Life-boat House, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W. 1 (Close to Victoria Station).
As already announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, the Headquarters at...
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April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 56
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...
Category: Services
Hammer Blow!
A grand bottle-breaking event was held at the Vaynol Arms Hotel in Abersoch, when the proceeds from six months hard work by the licensee, Andrew Shaw, were counted.
Long after the bottle had been filled interest in the... - View image in PDF
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Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth Yarmouth's new £1.8m all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after Eric and Susan Hiscock, whose generous legacy provided the funding.
The naming ceremony was... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Thorold
AU G U S T 2 2 N D . - D A V I D ’ S , P E M - BROKESHIRE. At 11.35 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel in distress two miles westward of the Smalls Lighthouse. Permission to launch, was got from the naval authorities, and the motor...
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 8 Rescues from around the country including a Silver Medal service Looking to the Future 14 Andrew Freemantle, RNLI Director, reports on the outcome of the 'Vision...
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Girls trapped A POLICE message on May 1 told the Newquay, Cornwall, ILB that four people were stranded on rocks on the north side of Zacrys Island.
The maroons were fired at 4.26 p.m.
Wind was north...
Life-Boat Families. The Cables of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.
The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...
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The M.F.V.s Sophie Louise, Nova Venture and George Weatherill
Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds IWhitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels experienced difficulties with the entrance to the...