LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen.

To R. D. JONES, on his retirement, after serving 21 years as Second Coxswain of the Criccieth Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.

To JOHN HOWBLLS, on...

WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.

He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...

N the 10th number of this Journal, we remarked on a boat accident, attended with loss of life, which had then recently occurred, through a person climbing the mast of a small boat, and we strongly urged the rash- ness and danger of such a...

The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...

BOOM! Booml The sound of the signal gun Thrills the heart, as it startles the ear, And swift as their flying feet can run The men rush out as the sound they hear; And swift as their strong hands can undo, Shackle and fastenings are undone...

Tempes- tuous weather was experienced on the north-east coast during the last days of September, and the Swedish barque Princess Wilhelmina of Halmstad, laden with firewood from Kemi to Dundee, became embayed off St. Andrews. Fail- ing to...

THAT great friendly society, the Ancient Order of Foresters, has for a long time been one of the most gener- ous supporters of the Institution.

Foresters' orders are of great anti- quity and their origin cannot now be...

WORK has been in progress for some years to produce a new carriage for transporting life-boats down to the sea at stations where there is no suitable harbour and no means of launching a life-boat down a slipway. For some time the need has...