LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coaster escort Another service which made the headlines was carried out by the Hastings and Eastbourne lifeboats on 14 November 1993.

The coaster Tern was badly down by the head and in severe difficulties 10 miles off the...

JUNE 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.28 P.M. a message was received at the life-boathouse from the Royal Engineers Signals at Princes Golf Club, that a vessel near there was showing flares, and at 10.45 P.M. another message came from the...

Two years ago the Lerwick Branch wrote to over 130 firms in the Shet- iands asking if their staffs and work- people would give a penny a week to the Life-boat Service. All but one firm agreed. The contributions for the first year amounted...

Hartlepool, Durham.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1954, a police officer rang up to say that he had seen someone waving in a fishing boat one mile north of Heugh Light.

The boat appeared to have broken...

London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).

Name.

Age.

School.

Elaine Bollard • Myf anwy Wilding .

Iris Speller .

GUESTS OF HONOUR at the annual presentation of awards meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15 in this the RNLI's 160th anniversary year was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the Institution....

IN December, 1928, the Institution received the following letter from Mill- brook, Ontario, Canada :— " In the Toronto, Can., Globe of Dec. 8th, I saw an interesting article about the work of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. I...

THE Committee of Management of the Institution welcomes five new mem- bers.

Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1955 to 1960, when he retired from the Royal...