LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SINCE the last issue of The Life-boat secretary of the Tunbridge Wells branch, Mr. Keppel H. Foote, late district inspector of life-boats, Captain Thomas Pengilly, late coxswain at Clovelly, and ex-Coxswain William Miller, of Eyemouth....

Mrs Elisabeth Hillmann Lake District branch chairman.

Elisabeth joined the branch as secretary in 1978 and was chairman from 1983 until her retirement in 1994. She was awarded the Silver badge in 1989..

BALLANTRAE, N.B.—On the application of the local residents, a Life-boat station has been established at Ballantrae, a small village on the coast of Ayrshire, where Shipwrecks occasionally take place—three having occurred there, with loss of...

In five years and three months of war our life-boats have rescued 5,895 lives from ships and aeroplanes. That is an average of 21 lives every week, or three lives rescued for every one during the 20 years of peace between the two...

BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.—The crew of the Life-boat placed here by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION not being satisfied with their boat, and having expressed a strong desire that they might be furnished with another one, the Institution has...

THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years....

THE R. N.L.I, this year is offering six attractive life-boat Christmas cards. Buying life-boat cards, calendars and gifts is an easy and effective way of helping the life-boat service.

Although an informative leaflet,...

THE Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of this truly important and national Society was held at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, London, on the 18th of May. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, K.G., its President,...