LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sixty Years of Service
MR. J. R. BARNETT, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., of the famous Glasgow firm of Messrs.
G. L. Watson, retired at the end of July from the post of consulting naval architect to the Institution, and the Committee of Management, as some...
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen. Certificates of Service and Pensions
On the closing of the St. Andrews life-boat station the following awards have been made: DAVID FENTON, 8 years coxswain, 9f years bowman and 22J vears a member of the crew, the COXSYVAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a...
Category: Awards
Coxswain Perrin of Skegness Hands Over Christmas Fare to the Lynn Welllight Vessel
Coxswain Perrin of Skegness Hands Over Christmas Fare To The Lynn Welllight Vessel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Richard Davies, Coxswain of Cromer Lifeboat
I Richard Da vies, coxswain of Cromer lifeboat, first joined the crew in 1962 and then served as second coxswain from 1975 until his appointment as coxswain in 1976. Richard was also a crew member of the station's inshore lifeboat from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Exhibition of Life-Boat Photographs
THE first exhibition of life-boat photographs to be held was shown in London in June and July. It consisted of upwards of seventy photographs taken all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The photographs showed wrecks, the...
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The Princess Royal
H.R.H. the Princess Royal named the new Hartlepool motor life-boat "The Princess Royal" on 2ist July. The boat is of the 46-feet Watson cabin type, was finished in 1939 and went to her station a month after the outbreak of war. She...
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(Above) After Her Naming Ceremony at Shoreham on Thursday May 2 By Lady Egremont President of the Ladies' Lifeboat Guilds Mary Gabriel 37' 6" Rather Class Wa
(Above) After her naming ceremony at Shoreham on Thursday, May 2, by Lady Egremont, president of the ladies' lifeboat guilds, Mary Gabriel, 37' 6" Rather Class, was taken to her station, Hoylake, in Cheshire. A service of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scarpe
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 28th of March, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that an ex- it.A.F. motor launch appeared to be in need of help one and a half miles east-north-east of Flamborough Head but had shown no...
The North Deal Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
JDST a week before the Lord Mayor's Show in November last the North Deal Life-boats had carried out the very gallant rescues which are described on another page, when three vessels were in distress on the Goodwin Sands. It was felt to be...
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New Member of Committee of Management
REAR-ADMIRAL R. St. V. Sherbrooke, V.C., C.B., D.S.O., has been co-opted to the Committee of Management.
Rear-Admiral Sherbrooke, who lives in Newark, Notts., joined the Royal Navy in 1913 and was awarded the Victoria Cross...
Category: Committee