LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The R.N.L.I, received recognition in the New Year Honours, one award going to an official at the London headquarters and two to a coxswain and a second coxswain.

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• Mr. John R. Atterton, deputy...

The Institution has now completed the full history of the services of life-boats during the war of 1939-45. This has been prepared for purposes of his- torical record and is not for general distribution. The story of the Life-boat Service in...

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Mr. J. L. Tillett, a leading member of the Norwich Round Table (which paid for the IRB at Happisburgh) is a jeweller by trade. He made some delightful miniature badges depicting a life-boat, in gold and colour, which were sold at the Norfolk...

The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 9.35 P.M. on the 22nd November a message was received from the port doctor at Grimsby that the Latvian steamer Everolanda, of Riga, at anchor S.E. of Spurn light-vessel, had wirelessed that a, woman on board...

100 years ago It will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting contained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chairman of the Institution, on behalf of the...

The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...

On the 16th March it was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a terrific sea, when the Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Newquay, came into the bay in a distressed state, and after a narrow es- cape of being blown on the rocks, where...