LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE have the pleasure of giving a list, brought up to date, of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of Permanent Crews, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His...

Among the honoured guests were (I. to r.) Coxswain Charles Dowry ofSheerness, Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, of The Mumbles, Mrs Pat Scott, Mrs Frances Patten and Coxswain Len Patten of Newhaven. The three coxswains, all medallists, made... - View image in PDF

ALTHOUGH 1933 was remarkable for having one of the longest and most settled summers on record, the number of lives rescued from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland was the largest for five years. It was 406. Of this total...

OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.

Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...

The new 70-foot steel life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) picking up three people from a drifting dinghy off The Mumbles, Glamorganshire, in June, 1966.

Also visible in the photograph (left) is the bow of... - View image in PDF

HOLYHEAD.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out on service on the morning of the 26th Jan., 1893, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Sarah, of and from Fowey for Runcorn, which had stranded on the...

ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...

HOLIDAYMAKERS may come and holidaymakers may go, and at Skegness they do that by their thousands, but the town and its people have all the contentment and assurance of deep roots and long friendships. There is above all a sense of continuity...