LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE series of Exhibitions held in London during the last few years would certainly have been incomplete without one to illustrate the history, development and progress of the Navy. Such an under- taking could not fail to enlist public...

THE following Eegulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

Hutnber, Yorkshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 29th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had requested assistance in landing a sick man. The lifeboat City of Bradford III was launched at 6.50...

Injured man A YACHT AGROUND in Worbarrow Bay was reported to the deputy launching authority of Weymouth lifeboat station at 0006 on Sunday September 24, 1978, and at 0030 the 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell, with Coxswain Alfred Pavey in...

POOLE.—The barque Brilliant, of Grimstadt, while on a voyage from Cuba to Bremen with a cargo of cedar logs, went aground on the Hook Sands, at the mouth of Poole harbour, in a heavy gale from S.E. by E. and a very high sea on the 12th...

Brigadier J. W. H. Gow, CBE DL, who was involved with the RNLI in Scotland for many years. Brigadier Gow was chairman of Glasgow branch from 1937 to 1973, from 1953 to 1985 he served on the committee of management, andbetween the years 1950...

A small girl was startled to see someone placing a cheque for £100 in her collecting box during the R.N.L.I. flag day collection at Baltimore. With the help of this cheque, a record collection was made at Baltimore for the...

The RNLI held its Annual Presentation of Awards in London’s Barbican on 14 May, with HRH The Duke of Kent as guest of honour in his 40th year as the charity’s President.

The Duke presented Lifeguards Chris Boundy and John...