LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...

COXSWAIN William Sheader of Scarborough has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver medal for gallantry for a remarkable service in which he had to take the life-boat in among dangerous outcrops of rock with at times only five feet of water...

About 10 P.M. on the 7th January, two steamers, the Stella Maris, of Glasgow, and Oria, of Bilbao, collided off the Skerries.

Within five minutes of the collision the latter vessel sank, but happily her crew were able to...

COXSWAIN WILLIAM ROBINSON of Newbiggin, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Dent, the representatives of the twenty-five women launchers of Newbiggin, and the five other Bronze Medallists who attended the Annual Meeting to be decorated, were the guests of...

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MAY 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer, with a number of women and children on board, had been bombed by enemy aircraft and was drifting in the South Downs. A light south-west...

To the Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.

SIR,—As I was an eye-witness of them, I think it may be of interest to you to have a narrative from myself of the events which led up to what I have no hesitation in calling one of the...