LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...

IT is just fifty years since the barque Indian Chief, outward bound from Middlesbrough to Yokohama, was wrecked on the Long Sand, off the mouth of the Thames, and the twelve survivors of her crew of twenty-nine men were rescued by the...

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There was an expectant buzz around the Scarborough boathouse as the crowd awaited the arrival of HRH The Duchess of Kent in the warm, late summer sunshine on 9 September 1992. In a lively and enthusiastic speech by branch president Gilbert...

DURING November and December, 1920, and January, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : — To ROBERT LEES, Esq...

1st February to 30th April, 1936.

Greater London.

On 1st March the following branches in the South-East of England were transferred to Greater London : Southend, Romford and Hornchurch, Upminster and...

A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain C. J.

Crockford and crew of the Tenby, Pembrokeshire, life-boat for the...

Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : FREDERICK J. WEBB, 27J years coxswain of the Weston-super-Mare...