LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., who died on the 5th of December, 1954, at the age of 61, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management for seven years.

He first joined the committee in 1947 as an ex-officio member when he was...

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WE have much pleasure in being able to report that the French Government have decided to place some life-boats on the coasts of France. Preparatory to doing so, it appears to have been decided to obtain every information on the subject, and...

A shattered bark, and an angry sky, And the storm-wraith shrieking fierce and high, And, aye and anon, from the murky cloud, The thunder echoing hoarse and loud ! Oh! little ship, that at dawn of day Didst gaily sail from thy native bay,...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. •— At 11.30 on the night of the 16th of April, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a trawler had reported that one of her crew had injured his hand badly and urgently needed hospital treat- ment. The...

Two life - boat stations celebrated their centenaries in 1938: Dover, Kent, and Wexford and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. In each case a vellum was presented by the Institu- tion, signed by the H.R.H. Duke of Kent, K.G., as President,...

On the 20th October, the barque Vermont, of Halifax, parted from her anchors and van ashore, in a heavy gale from W.N.W., on Burnett's wharf shoal, near Fleetwood. The Institution's life-boat, stationed at that place, was immediately...