LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas James Jeune, of Beaumaris, Anglesey.

He was appointed coxswain at the beginning of 1939; was away on war service from September, 1939, until June, 1945; and then took up...

BESIDES the exhibition on the South Bank of the Thames there were two travelling exhibitions. One by sea and the other by land. The exhibition by sea was mounted in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Campania, which sailed from Southampton early in...

FLEETWOOD MOTOR VESSEL BREAKS DOWN Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.30 a.m.

on Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares were being burnt about half a mile east of Danger Patch...

AT Spurn Point, on the Humber, on llth July, a tablet on the Life-boat House was unveiled to the memory of the late Mr. S. Crabtree Helm, of Bradford and Ilkley, who left £2,000 to the Institution, as well as a share in the ultimate...

Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 6 p.m.

on 27th May, 1967, the honorary secretary was asked by the Irish Lights Office if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Coningbeg lightvessel whose mother was...

Above: The overall winner - an Atlantic speed by Alan Sewell (nominated statio Far right: Winner of the 'Camera Action' section - R. D. Farnworth (nominated station, West Kirby) Near right: A colourful entry in the Volunteers'... - View image in PDF

Walton-on-the-Naze.

The Annual Meeting was held on the 29th December, the chair being taken by Mr. E. Standley, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. W. Eagle, the Chair- man. The account for the year ending the 30th...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...