LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Seven aboard liferaft AT 0115 in the early hours of Saturday, October 20, 1984, red flares were sighted in the Bramble Bank area of the Solent. By 0136, Calshot's 40ft Keith Nelson lifeboat, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde,...

The following coxswains, members of lifeboat creii's and shore helpers were awarded certificates of sen-ice on their retirement and, in addition.

those entitled to them bv the Institution's regulations, were awarded...

Time of 1929. Launching.

Jan. 1. 1.45p.m.

1. 2.40p.m.

„ 2. 10.0 a.m.

„ 2. 3.15p.m.

„ 5-6. 3.39p.m.

9. 11.25...

Selflessness

We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...

MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...

IT is with much pleasure that we record that the Netherlands Government have shown their appreciation of the service of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat in saving seven lives from the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, on the 3rd December, 1920, by...

1952 £ s. d, 226,765 8 4 229 10 2 29,963 7 7 10,020 - - 126 18 9 36,986 4 6 12,043 - 11 1,638 - - 2,836 16 1 320,609 603 280 1,867 911 150 3,813 11,978 24,357 39 36,375 38,105 7,130 41,665 987 759 50.543 6 10 9 4 7 18 10 10 14 5 19 12...

THE STEEL HULL of the fast slipway lifeboat is built upside down, so that the welder can look down on his work, both making the work easier and also making it possible for him to achieve the best results: the integrity and strength of the...