LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• In Small Boat Navigation (Stanley Paul, £2.25), Lt-Commander Pat Hepherd covers a great deal of this wide subject clearly and at times lightheartedly.

To the completely inexperienced reader some of the information...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For tile Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED in 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...

There have been bonds between the police in Wolverhampton and the RNLI since 1863 when Captain Henry Segrave, the Chief Constable of Wolverhampton, was elected honorary secretary of the newly-formed Wolverhampton branch, and over the years...

ONE OF THE PEOPLE upon whom honorary life governorship was bestowed at the 1973 annual meeting of the RNLI was Professor William W. Flexner, pho, in recognition of the very valuable help which he has given to the lifeboat service in the...

Thev met at Cowes: (I to r) Michael Butler (Cowes base). Helmsman Frank Ditnsler (Havling Island). Lt-Cdr Michael Woodroffe, staff officer operations (1), Helmsman John Hodder (Lyine Regis), Michael Brinton. depute superintendent of depot... - View image in PDF

MAY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 10.55 at night the naval base reported through the coastguard that an American soldier and a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service had been cut off by the tide on Ynys Meibion rocks...

REFERENCE has been made before in The Life-boat to the way in which old age continues to help the life-boats.

There are five more very touching examples of such service.

A Croydon lady 79 years old has...

Inaugural Ceremony by the Prince of Wales, K.G.

THE PRINCE or WALES, as President of the Institution, on 10th July named the new Dover Motor Life-boat Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institu- tion.