LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JUNE 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and the life-boat and her motor boarding boat searched, but they found nothing, and later were recalled by wireless. - Rewards, £8 16s..

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• The quality of lifeboat station histories seems to improve steadily. A recent outstanding example is The Men of The Mumbles Head by Carl Smith (J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gower Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, £3.50).

Mr Smith,...

The Dublin lifeboat spring sale of work was held in the Royal Dublin Society on Friday March 9. With over 300 voluntary workers involved it is the single largest fund-raising event in Ireland for the lifeboat service. Mrs...

Witham and District branch, Essex, held its 1982 house to house collection in July. When the box of one of its supporters, Mr B. Tebbutt of Coggershall, was opened it was found to contain £75.30; that amount was made up on one £10...

In December last, the Viscountess Hawarden was chairman of the Central London Women's Committee 150th anniversary Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball at the Dorchester Hotel. The event was graced by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and...

Birthday and New Year's Honours QBE Horace Kemball Greaves, secretary, Manchester Savings Committee. After the loss of the Mumbles lifeboat in 1947 Mr Greaves, then town treasurer of Swansea and honorary secretary of the Swansea branch,...

Seahorse III at Cromer The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain. The chairman introduced John Gamble, representing the sponsors of the...