LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

From the beginning of the war up to to-day the life-boats of the Institution have rescued 3840 lives. They have rescued more lives in just over twenty-two months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued 40 lives a week,...

Mr. W. DOUGLAS JOHNSTON, O.B.E., J.P., has been elected an HONORARY LIFE- GOVERNOR of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable help which he has given to the life-boat service both as a member of the local committee and as chairman...

AT Porthclais harbour in Pembroke- shire about 3.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 19th of July, 1963, Mr. B. J.

Williams heard a woman shouting that a man had fallen over the cliff. With the help of a friend, Mr. T. J....

The list of honours bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the New Year Honours for 1959 included :— K.B. Mr. J. A. MILNE, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director, J. Samuel White & Co.

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JUNE 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Sandgate coastguard that a Hurricane fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles S.S.W. of Dungeness. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea...

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.

The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...

Ix the issue of The Life-boat for last September an article was published on the pension fund which was formed to provide for the forty-two dependants of the nine life-boatmen who lost their lives when the Caister No. 2 life-boat was wrecked...

Moved by Rear-Admiral the Earl TALBOT, C.B., and seconded by MONTAGUE GORE, Esq.,— 1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.

Moved by Captain JOHN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy-Master of the Trinity House, and...