LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Volunteer action awards TJie Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards are recognised as one of the UK's most prestigious community award schemes.

Fundraising and operational volunteers with the RNLI are eligible for the awards...

proudly rules the waves.

And honour's justly due To those who guard the Union Jack,— Our tars so staunch and true; But now a peaceful lay we sing, And glory, too, to boast Of those who rescue lives so dear From wrecks...

A NUMBER of articles which it had been hoped to publish in this number have been held over owing to lack of space, among them being " Honorary Workers of the Institution : Mr. Ernest Wool- field, Honorary Secretary of the Kessing-...

Barra Island, Hebrides.—16th November.

Two keepers had put out from Monach Island lighthouse, forty-five miles from Barra, in a small boat on the previous day, and all trace of them had been lost. An unsuccessful search was...

Captain David Rees, of New Quay (Cardigan), who died in February, 1937, at the age of eighty-nine, wasone of the oldest of the honorary secretaries of stations. He had held that post at New Quay for forty-seven years. In recognition of his...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 4.30 in the morning of the 19th of November, 1948, a telephone message was received from Vatersay Island asking for help to be sent for a maternity case. A south-east gale was blowing with a rough...

Lowestoft: A trimaran on passage from Wells to Ramsgate was reported making water fast on Sunday August 6. Lowestoft's 47ft Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick launched at 0554 and reached the casualty at 0750. Three people were taken... - View image in PDF

An evening auction of antiques and fine art at Bonham's Montpelier Galleries, Knightsbridge, on May 25, organised by the Central London Committee and conducted by Nicholas Bonham, raised nearly £6,000 for the lifeboat service. The...