LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...

WE think that the public will be inter- ested to learn something of the way in which the Institution deals with one of the most important branches of the great life-saving work entrusted to it. Few except technicaJ experts can fully realize...

EASTBOURNE: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were... - View image in PDF

NOVEMBER 16TH. - RUNSWICK, SCARBOROUGH, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

A British bomber aeroplane had been reported down some miles out at sea, and later it was reported that another bomber was down, but nothing was found by the...

27th December, 1933. A French trawler had stranded on the Black Middens, but was refloated by a tug.—Rewards £17 14s..

OCTOBER 4TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A vessel had run ashore, but refloated. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..

THE photograph on the cover is of Coxswain Frederick Palmer of Wey- mouth, who first joined the Weymouth crew in 1926. Since then Weymouth life-boats have been launched on service 240 times and have rescued 180 lives.

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FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—A life-boat station has been recently formed at Fleetwood in connection with the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. A life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S plan, as adopted by the Institution, 30 ft. long, rowing six oars,...