To W. J. HANNANT, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 11 years as Bowman of the Hasborough Life-boat, a Pension.
To CHARLES H. HARVEY, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after...
Category: Awards
THE following regular features of The Lifeboat are held over until the November issue :—" Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen," "Awards to Honorary Workers," " Gifts from Life-boat Crews," and" Gifts from...
Category: Articles
From a Submarine Depot-ship.
H.M.S. Cyclops, the submarine depotship, when she was paid off at Chatham in the spring, sent a gift of £30 to the Institution from her canteen funds.
From Two...
Category: Donations
17th February. A canoe from Brandon had put out with three men on board to collect seaweed.
Later she was found drifting bottom up, but a prolonged search for the missing men was unsuccessful. The branch chairman and...
Two lectureson the life-boat service have been given recently in prisons. Captain Basil Hall, R.N., late district inspector of life-boats and a silver medallist of the Institution spoke at Wormwood Scrubbs, and Commander Charles Parker,...
Category: Articles
10th November. A sailing boat with twenty men and women on board, mostly agricultural workers returning from the Scottish potato harvest, put off from Burtonport for Arran Island at about 6 P.M. on the 9th November. There was a moderate but...
7th De- cember. Two boys in a boat had got lost in a fog, but made land unaided.
The father of one of the boys gave the life-boat crew fifty guineas in appre- ciation of their search. — Rewards, £24 8s. 6d..
Aith, Shetland*.—On the 20th April the motor life-boat went to Papa Stour to bring to hospital a small boy with afractured thigh. (Full account on page 122.) Expenses were paid by the Department of Health for Scotland..
Peel and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—• 23rd July. A fishing boat had not returned to Peel with the fleet, but she was found by a trawler which joined the life-boats in the search.—Rewards, Peel, £10 4s. 6d; Port Erin, £7 2s..
Hastings, Sussex.—24th July, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea. Another aeroplane and a motor boat joined the life-boat in the search, but nothing could be found and no aeroplane was reported...