LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tim Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...

EASTBOURNE.—The Life-boat on this Station has been exchanged for a new boat, provided by some friends of the Institution at Manchester, through J. F.

MILNE, Esq. At their request it is named the William and Mary. It is 34...

A VELLUM to mark the 150th anniver- sary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Sunderland was presented on the 6th of October, 1954, by Mr.

Arthur G. Everett, a member of the Committee of Management. The vellum was...

Why do I support the RNLI? Two accounts follow of contrasting, unusual experiences on a lifeboat in answer to this question During the Second World War I served for a time in an RNLI boat The Sir William Hillary, ex Dover station. I was 19...

Bobby Lee, BEM, coxswain of the Douglas lifeboat from 1950 to 1970. On one of his first services as coxswain, in April 1950, Bobby Lee rescued ten men from Mary Heely.. - View image in PDF

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...

COVER PICTURE by Richard Price The first Atlantic 75, Susan Peacock, shows her paces in the Solent before going to Poole for Open Days in July, She was accompanied by the first Atlantic 21, brought out of retirement for the event, and the... - View image in PDF

Naming ceremonies are occasions for the entire community: Joseph Soar (Civil Service No. 34) launches at St David's after her naming by HRH The Princess Marina in 1964.. - View image in PDF