LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES to the RNLI INSHORE LIFEBOATS for over 25 years OUTBOARDS are adapted to meet the stringent and safety performance requirements specified by the RNLI For full information contact: Launton Road ...

The 1939-45 star has been awarded to all members of the crews of lifeboats in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who were out on life-boat service 25 times or more during the war. Two hundred and fourteen men have qualified for...

By the death of Dr. J. Iredale, of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, on 8th Sep- tember last, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. Dr.

Iredale became the Honorary Secretary of the Station at Mablethorpe...

Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brigh- ton, Cheshire, who died on 6th January last, was the First Engineer of the first of the Institution's Steam Life-boats, the Duke of Northumberland, and he served as an engineer for twenty-seven years.<...

On the 18th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the E.S.E.

with a rough sea, the brig Hondeklip, of Swansea, bound ftom Ghent for Dublin, was observed ashore on the north-east part of the Goodwin Sands. The...

LiEUT.-CoL. HENRY WILLIAM MADOC, C.B.E., M.V.O., who died on 7th January at the age of sixty-eight, was for twenty-three years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Douglas, Isle of Man. It was only in August of last year that...

Mr. A. J. Phillips, of Newport, Monmouthshire, w o died on 12th September, was one of the Institution's oldest and most devoted supporters.

First as honorary secretary and then as chairman, he had been associated with...

COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...