LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

n the fishing cobles went to sea at about 5.45 A.M. on 15th March the weather was misty with a strong swell running.

With the flowing tide the sea increased until, at 8.30 A.M., it was decided to launch the Pulling and...

The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's annuity or a retirement allowance and a gratuity.

Name JOHN JAMES MURRAY DAVID M. HOGGINS HUGH...

Two calls A RED FLARE was sighted off shore by the honorary secretary of Withernsea lifeboat station and a shore helper at 2025 on Sunday July 27, 1980. Maroons were fired and while the two men were preparing the D class inflatable lifeboat...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 143 station life-boats 101 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 90,321 from the Institution's foundation in...

THE Institution is at present engaged on a major programme of construction and modernization, and at the time of going to press there are no fewer than 17 new life-boats in various stages of construc- tion. The total cost of this boat...

PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner City of Bangor, of Bangor, was seen riding heavily at her anchors in Porthdinllaen Bay during a heavy N.E. gale, at about 9 A.M.

on the 28th October. In reply to her signals of distress the...

Honorary Life-Governors.

HARRIET, LADY FINDLAY, D.B.E., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of her valued services as President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of the Edinburgh,...

IN the year 1857 the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, as will be remembered by its supporters, appealed to the medical profession in this country and, through foreign ambassadors, to the public medical authorities of several other countries,...