LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Birthday Honours The following were honoured by HM The Queen in her Birthday Honours list for their services to the Institution: MBE: David Cargill. Mechanic at Arbroath lifeboat station from 1973 to February 1995, having joined the crew in...

Coxswain Benjamin Armitage of Hoylake died on the llth of August, 1960, at the age of 71. He was appoin- ted second coxswain in 1946 and cox- swain in 1948. He retired in 1951. In February 1943 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry...

The fishing-boats also went to their fishing-grounds at 2 A.M. on the 28th March. At 5.30 the wind commenced to blow strongly, and at 7 o'clock it had increased to a gale from the E.S.E., and the sea .was very rough. Nine of the boats...

COXSWAIN JOHN Fox and the young crew of the Shoreham life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the rescue of two people from a...

In 1940 the Manchester and Salford Branch launched an appeal for £10,000 to build a motor life-boat to replace the life-boat which had been lost in the evacuation of the B. E. F. from Dunkirk. That fund has now been completed. It has...

Miss Mary F. Moore has managed to convey a remarkable amount of valuable information about life-boats, coastguards, lighthouses and light-ves- sels in a very easily readable form in her Life-boats and Lifesaving (Macmillan,...

During this year of war fourteen new motor life-boats have been completed and sent to the coast. All of them but one went to their stations by sea..

Seal of approval Mumbles South West Division Mumbles lifeboatmen took part in an unusual rescue in July when they saved a seal from an early grave by freeing it from a fishing net.

The old seal, which is well known in the...