LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
July (1)
RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services
The Mumbles
THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE On the 20th January, 1941, The Mumbles life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM J. GAMMON was awarded the bronze medal.
MOTOR...
Category: Medals
Contents
V X)fltCfl.tS Notes of the Quarter 38 T.7 1 VT TV Lifeboat Services 41 Volume XLIX Number 488 Visiting Lifeboats, from West Germany and the Netherlands 47 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 48 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL...
Category: Contents
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
SATURDAY, 18th March, 1893.
The Annual General Meeting of the friends and supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE- BOAT INSTITUTION took place this day at St.
Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road,...
Category: Committee
Cogswell & Harrison Ltd
THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FLASHLIGHT DYNALITE FLASHES The world's most powerful flashlight, specially imported from the U.S.A. This six-cell flashlight is 80,000 candle power and is entirely waterproof, made of strong plastic and...
Category: Advertisement
Coxswain Hugh Nelson
HUGH NELSON, coxswain of the Dona- ghadee life-boat, died on the 21st of November, 1954, at the age of 63. He had served as coxswain of the Dona- ghadee life-boat since July, 1949, having previously been second cox- swain for twenty...
Category: Obituaries
Index to Advertisers
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Henry Browne & Son Ltd 100 Burndept Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Castrol Ltd 89 Chloride Group Companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Category: Index
Literature
LITERATURE OF THE LIFE-BOAT An Account of Books, Pamphlets and Press Articles on the Life-boat Service, 1785-1947 With 63 i ustrotions from old prints, paintings and photographs By SIR JOHN GUMMING K.C.I.E.,...
Category: Advertisement
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 17th January, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to forward to the South Holland Life-boat Society a message expressing regret and sympathy in connexion with the loss of the...
Category: Committee
The Empire Mourns
NEVER probably in the history of our country has public feeling been so moved and sorrow so universally felt and ex- pressed as in the last few days, conse- quent on the almost sudden, and world- wide deplored death of the most beloved of...
Category: Articles