MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
Category: Services
WE have in previous numbers of the Life-boat Journal given accounts of the Life-saving Institutions of France and Germany, and have referred to those in other maritime countries of Europe. We feel sure that equal interest will be felt in a...
Category: Articles
HARWICH, ESSEX ; POLKERRIS and FOWEY, CORNWALL BULL BAY, ANGLESEY ; TROON and PORT ERROLL, SCOTLAND. — It having been found necessary to replace the Life-boats at these stations by new boats, the crews were as usual called upon to furnish...
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Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a PENSION, have been awarded to: RICHARD LEE, 21J years coxswain, 7J years second coxswain and 3J years bowmam of the Douglas...
Category: Awards
IN the June, 1964, number of THE LIFE-BOAT it was stated that a delegation from the United States Coast Guard which visited Europe in 1928 had decided that the Watson cabin life-boat of the R.N.L.I. was the most suitable for their purposes...
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1956 £ 185,858 286 40,479 9,808 386 42,575 12,631 2,596 3,360 61,162 2,571 58,591 295,408 4,205 731 744 2,571 8,251 12,416 38,444 50,860 50,360 9,315 47,145 1,574 967 1,409 60,410 24,072 4,460 328 28,860 494,149 PAYMENTS LIFE-BOATS :—...
Category: Accounts
THE United States Government have recently issued their report of their Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1888. From it we learn that at the close of the fiscal year in question there were 222 life-saving stations, 170...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the 18th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat from the Swedish tanker Sira of Vaster- vik, with a crew of four, had not re- turned...
Coxswain George Lisle of Tyne- mouth died on the 6th of December, 1959, at the age of 80. He first joined the Tynemouth crew in 1921. He was second coxswain from 1925 to 1938 and then coxswain for four years. He was awarded the bronze medal...
Category: Obituaries
Romantic fiction often portrays Victorian women as weak, passive creatures, but the list of RNLI Gallantry Medal awardees shows another side. Nineteen women have been awarded Medals for Gallantry in the RNLi's history.
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