LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE exhibition of life-boat photographs which has already been shown in London, Edinburgh and Birmingham has, during the latter part of the year, been on a tour of the North-East of England, and has been shown at York, Bradford, Sunderland...

ON Sunday, ist November, 1964, the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all life-boat services was commemorated at Whitby. This was the rescue from the hospital ship Rohilla.

The Rohilla, a vessel of 7,365 tons...

Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

THE COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and & PENSION, have been awarded to :— . ' FREDERICK BARNES, 19J years coxswain and 13 years second coxswain, and 2J years...

Ilfracombe, and Appledore, Devon; and Minehead, Somerset.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1954, the Admiralty tanker Wave Victor, which had fifty-five people on board, wirelessed that fire had broken out in her engine-room...

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, deputising for his mother, the late Princes Marina, Duchess of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., named the new Padstow life-boat James and Catherine Macfarlane, a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley, on 19th July,...

IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: January 1987 Cyril Mayo, chairman of Warmley branch since 1974, two years after he first became a member. He was awarded a statuette in 1983.

February 1987 Robert...

new FOR DARTMOUTH the establishment of a permanent lifeboat station at Dartmouth, Devon, has come one step closer, with the granting of planning permission for a boathouse.

the River Dart and its estuary are home to 3,400...

Annual Meetings: Station Branches.

BLACKPOOL (LANCASHIRE).—On 1st July, Councillor T. P. Fletcher, J.P., Deputy-Mayor, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £371 had been col-...