LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS 1 LIFE-BOATS The cost of replacing the existing fleet is approximately £13,000,000 (1970 £12,000,000). The committee has at present resolved to replace certain life-boats, the cost of which is estimated at...

Captain E. S. Carver, R.D.,R N.R., on the advice of his doctor, retired from the chief inspectorship of life-boats at the end of last year. He had been chief inspector since the beginning of the war, and before that a district inspector for...

Two ILBs search A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY in which it was thought there were two boys and which appeared to be in difficulty 600 yards off Southerness Light was reported to Silloth ILB station by Ramsey Coastguard at 1819 on Wednesday May 2;...

Right: Cullercoats' Atlantic 21 lifeboat Edmund and Joan White being put through her paces.. - View image in PDF

76 year old Edwin E.

Distin (seated), the only survivor of the 1916 lifeboat diaster at Salcombe, with (left to right) Mr.W. P. Budgett, honorary secretary, Hubert 'Bubbles' Distin, son, who is the coxswain, and... - View image in PDF

Dover, Kent. At 7.8 on the evening of the 15th of February, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the Swedish motor vessel Britta of Helsingborg, which had been in col- lision with the Italian tanker Mirella d'Amico...

As this issue of the JOURNAL probably comes before many of the head teachers of National Schools throughout the j United Kingdom for the first time, j and in view of their widespread co- j operation in the Prize Essay Competition, it seems...

J To LADY BAKING, in recognition of her valu- ' able work in the organization of the London j Life-boat Bazaar, the Gold Brooch.

To Miss SILVESTER, in recognition of her I valuable services as Honorary...