LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1957 has been won by Mr. William Morris, the motor mechanic of the Barmouth life-boat.

He wins the award for the rescue in his own motor launch of four swimmers who...

THURSDAY, 4th June, 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN,  Esq., F.R.S., V.f., Chairman of the Institution , in the Chair. ' Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward....

Award* to Honorary Workers.

SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat was published, the following presenta- tions/have been made to Honorary, Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in recognition of their*...

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.

The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...

The Stratford upon Avon branch of the RNLI, together with Justina's of Stratford organised a highly successful evening of film and fashion at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Shakespeare Centre on 21 March 1996.. - View image in PDF

MRS. LOUISA RUTH LOWE, of Gosfield Hall, Essex, who died on 24th February in her 95th year had for eighteen years been the president of the Halstead and Gosfield branch, and had taken a very personal and generous interest in its work. She...

NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—The Life-boat placed on this station twenty years since by the Institution has recently been replaced by a new self-righting ' boat, 37 ft. long, 9 ft. 3 in. wide, and rowing twelve oars, double banked; she is pro-...

On tho morning of the 16th March, during a strong gale from the E.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, tho schooner Lucie Antoinette, of Nantes, went on the Good- win Sands. Tho Life-boat Bradford and steamer Vulcan proceeded out to her, and the...