LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the close of the fiscal year (30th June) 1899 the establishment of the Life-Saving Service of the United States embraced 265 stations. Of this number 193 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 56 on the coasts of the Great Lakes,...

MR. JOHN MILLER, the honorary secretary of the Thurso station, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours List, 1948. Mr. Miller became honorary secretary in March, 1914, and retired in May, 1948, after...

BY the death of Captain Charles John Philip Cave, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.A.S., F.R.P.S., J.P., of Petersfield, on Decem- ber 8th, 1950, in his eightieth year, the Committee of Management have lost their oldest member. Captain Cave was elected to...

Workington, Cumberland.—At noon on the 13th of September, 1952, a radio signal was received from the S.S. Blue- stone, of London, which was anchored off Workington that a member of her crew needed medical help. The life- boat N.T. was...

BY the death of General Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., K.C.M.G., D.S.O., on the 28th of January, 1952, at the age of 91, the Committee of Manage- ment lost one of their most distin- guished members. He became...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas Dawson of North Sunderland, who has been coxswain since September 1955. Before that he served as bowman for twelve years and second coxswain for more than four years. He first became a regular...

AMONG those associated with the life- boat service upon whom honours were conferred in the Birthday Honours were :— O.B.E. MR. T. O. GRAY, deputy treasurer and vice-president of the Institution ; ALDERMAN H. L. GROVES, patron of the Lake...

Walmer, Kent - At 7.33 p.m. on 23rd July, 1968, two IRB crew members saw a sculler belonging to the Deal rowing club capsize just north of the pier. Another club member swam out to him, but the sculler was driven rapidly towards the pier and...