LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Life-Boat M.B.E.
In the New Year's Honours Mr. H. M. Smardon, who has been honorary of the Order of the British Empire for his many public services in Brixham..
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An Aeroplane (74)
AUGUST 9TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. Owing to its engine failing, a R.A.F. Spitfire aeroplane crashed into the sea, but a naval vessel picked up the body of the pilot. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d.
Robert and Henry
The Life-boat Harriott Forteath was also launched at about 6.30 A.M., on the 20th August, and rescued the crew, consisting of three men, from the fishing coble Robert and Henry, of Whitby, which had stranded on the beach during- a fresh...
Adjutor, of Stavanger
ARBROATH.—On the 15th December the Life-boat People's Journal No. 2, aided by a steam-tug, was enabled to save and get into the harbour the Norwegian schooner Adjutor, of Stavanger. There was a strong S. wind and heavy sea at the...
An Aeroplane (2)
24th May.
An aeroplane crashed into the sea. A fishing boat picked up the body of the pilot, and the body of the passenger was recovered later.—Rewards, £10 7s.
Anti-Fouling Composition
THE Institution uses on a number of its life-boats which lie afloat the Torpedo Plastik Anti-Fouling Com- position made by British Paints. The name of this composition has been changed to Koplastik Anti-fouling.
The firm...
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New Members of Committee of Management
ME. PHILLIP COLVILLE M.B.E., Mr. E.
M. Cooper-Key, M.P., Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood and Commander A. J. O'Brien Twohig, have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institu-...
Category: Committee
Obituary
WE regret to report two serious losses which the Committee of Management have suffered by the death, on the llth September, of Admiral of the Fleet the MARQUESS or MILFORD HAVEN, and, on the 14th August, of Sir EDWARD FEETHAM COAXES, BT.<...
Category: Obituaries
A German Trawler
The following account of a service by the Helvick Head, Co. Waterford, life- boat on the 17th of December, 1959, was received too late for inclusion in the March, 1960, number of the Life- boat.
At 5.30 in the evening the...
Vectis Isle
On the 1st of January, 1961, the Weymouth life-boat towed the motor vessel Vectis Isle, which had a crew of five, into Weymouth harbour. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 46, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...