LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Children representing the 12 schools involved in the Swim for Fun Gala day show off their certificates and prizes. Halesowen branch organised the event at Stourbridge's indoor and outdoor pools one Sunday last July. Jean Hadley (far... - View image in PDF

(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS WORK.

Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts...

OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...

IN the Report of the General Superin- tendent of the Life-saving Service, it is stated that there were at the close of the last flscal year 194 stations, 149 being on the Atlantic, 37 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...

DINGHY ON ROCKS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 2.15 p.m. on i3th March, 1964, a member of the crew told the honorary secretary that he had seen a man in a dinghy being carried out of the Conway Estuary on the ebb tide. Visibility was poor...

THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their ninth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 2nd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.

Over £156 was...

THE Institution has received the follow- ing gifts from its Crews.

On 29th July, 1925, the Clacton-on- Sea Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Walkyrie, of Lannion, which had stranded on the N.E. Long Sands when bound from...

New Year Honours Among the awards in the New Year Honours list were: BEM David W. Evans, coxswain of New Quay (Dyfed) lifeboat. Coxswain Evans joined the lifeboat crew in 1958, was bowman from 1962 to 1964, second coxswain until 1965 when he...