LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TENBY H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. Presi- dent of the Institution, named the new Tenby life-boat Henri) Comber Brown at Tenby on the 2nd of June, 1956, and later went afloat in the life-boat. The life-boat has been built out of legacies from...

AFTER twenty-seven years with the Institution it is brought home to me more than ever that the great majority of the people of these islands have a dash of the salt of the sea in their veins. For twelve years, as an in- spector on the coast,...

The Robsons of North Sunderland.

By Mr. M. R. Norris, Honorary Secretary of the North Sunderland Station.

THERE have been Robsons in the life- boats at North Sunderland for at least ninety-seven years,...

THE 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...

JANUARY 4TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the morning news was received from Valentia Radio that the S.S. Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. The crew were called out at once and were on board the life-boat about ten o’clock, but...

DESPITE COLD NORTH-EAST WINDS Straight off the sea, hundreds of people gathered at the Fishmarket, Macduff, on Saturday April 3, for the naming of the station's 48' 6" Solent lifeboat Douglas Currie.

She was...

BLACKPOOL.—The old battleship Fou,- droyant, at one time Lord Nelson's flagship, which had been towed round the coast for the purpose of exhibition, while at anchor off Blackpool on the 16th June was overtaken by a sudden gale. At about...

A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...