LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Admiralty Trawler
DEC. 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An Admiralty trawler had been mined, but nothing could be found although a trawler picked up one survivor. - Rewards, £10 0S. 6d.gre.
An Aeroplane (12)
OCTOBER 15TH. - ST. IVES, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by another aeroplane. - Rewards : St. Ives, £11 1s. ; Padstow, £3 9s..
An Aeroplane (17)
DECEMBER 27TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported crashed in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Torbay, £27 6s. ; Salcombe, £21 11s. 6d..
Putting the Finishing Touch a Thin Red Line to One of the ' Year of the Lifeboat' Commemorative Mugs Made By Wedgwood on Show at Earls Court They Are Available Fr
Putting the finishing touch, a thin red line, to one of the ' Year of the Lifeboat' commemorative mugs made by Wedgwood. On show at Earls Court, they are available from Wedgwood Shop, 249 Oxford Street, London, Wl, price £4.20... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Honours for Honorary Workers
Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford ; Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., of Tynemouth.
THE Committee of Management at their meeting last June elected Miss Alice Marshall, the retiring Honorary Secretary of its Oxford Branch, a...
Category: Awards
The Fundraisers
Rallying round Neil Parullo and Nairn Brown entered a 72-hour classic car rally from Land's End to John O'Groats and raised a total of £5,100 for Strathmore branch - making them the clear winners of the shield awarded to the car...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South West Division French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had...
Category: Services
On the Employment of the Laryngoscope In the Treatment of Asphyxia By Submersion
By A DE LABORDETTE, Surgeon to the Hospital of Laisieux, Knight of the Legion of Honour.
THE laryngoscope has been the subject of a favourable report made to the Imperial Academy of Medicine by Professor...
Category: Articles
Recognition for Boatbuilders
A commemorative vellum has been awarded by the Institution to Messrs.
J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., who built 134 life-boats for the Institution between 1898 and 1964. Last year the firm ceased building wooden boats at...
Category: Awards
Nigel Dixon: 'We Give Thanks for His Life'
IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...
Category: Obituaries