LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ME. H. JENKINS, the Lowestoft photographer, whose photographs of lifeboats will be familiar to readers of The Life-boat (one of them will be found on page 212) has, for the eleventh year, produced a fishing fleet calendar. It has fourteen...

On the 10th Octo- ber the crew of six of the barge British Oak, of Rochester, were rescued by the motor life-boat Prudential.—Rewards, Thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed, together with mone- tary rewards amounting to...

The Institution deeply regrets the death of two of its vice-presidents who have given it long and distinguished service, Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., and Mr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, and of Vice- Admiral Sir Robert...

Falmouth, Cornwall. — 27th July, 1939. Two steamers had been in collision in the morning, one an oil tanker which had caught fire. Ten of her crew lost their lives. The other twenty-four had been rescued by another steamer. At 8 P.M. it was...

St. Marys, Scilly Isles.—13th Octo- * ber, 1939. The coastguard had re- ported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approx- imately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched...

Mrs. Robert Carpenter, who died on 24th April of this year, was one of the founders of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of Brighton and Hove in 1921, and was its first honorary secretary and treasurer. She held that post until 1930, when ill...

THE list of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the Birthday Honours for 1955 was: K.C.B.

Vice-Admiral A. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of...

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1960 has been won by Coxswain Patrick Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, for the rescue of the only man on board a disabled barge on the 4th of...