LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fleetwood: The D class inflatable lifeboat (above), given in memory of the late Miss Constance Mary Hardman, former head teacher of High Bank Nursery School, Pendlebury, by her sister Mrs P. T. Metcalfe and by the staff and pupils from the... - View image in PDF

The late Augustine Courtauld, after whom the new Poole lifeboat has been named (above).. - View image in PDF

Following the assistance given by the Bembridge life-boat to H.M.S. Submarine Alliance after she had grounded in January, 1968, Admiral Sir John Frewen, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, wrote to the Institution: 'I should like to...

To MRS. FABMEK, who was at one time Honorary Secretary of the Gloucester Branch, and who has helped the Institution, for 20 years, the Gold Brooch and the Record of Thanks.

To the following ladies who have worked in...

His Grace The Duke of Atholl As this issue of the Lifeboat was going to press we learned with great sadness of the death on 27 February 1996 of His Grace The Duke of Atholl, a tireless supporter of the Institution for almost 40...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—Very early on the morning of the 21st January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel in Ramsey bay, about five miles E.N.E. from Queen's Pier, was burning flares. A whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1953 78,410 Notes of the Quarter First Shore-boat Award of the Year Two...

Sir William Priestley, J.P., who died on March 25, a few days before his seventy-third birthday, was one of the Institution's most generous and in- fluential friends in the north of England.

The head of a big business...