LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brigadier-General W. S. Swabey, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL W. S. SWABEY, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., who died in September at the age of 68, had a distinguished career in the Royal Army Service Corps. During the war of 1914 to 1918 he was Deputy Director of Supplies in France, and...
Category: Obituaries
Handy Billy
Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 7th August information was received by telephone that the Great Yarmouth fishing boat Handy Billy was in distress about one and a half miles to the northward. A fresh E. by S. breeze was blowing and the...
News from the Branches
Walton-on-the-Naze.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 29th December, the chair being taken by Mr. E. Standley, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. W. Eagle, the Chair- man. The account for the year ending the 30th...
Category: Branches
Two of the Horses and Their Owners Are Reunited With Their Rescuers
Two of the horses and their owners are reunited with their rescuers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen. Certificates of Service and Pensions
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: THOMAS CBOWLEY, 31J years coxswain and If years second coxswain of the Fenit life-boat.
WILLIAM LINKLATEB, 8 years coxswain and 9J years bowman...
Category: Awards
The Life-Boat Service and the Shipping Companies
IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...
Category: Articles
Gwen
At 2.20 p.m. on 3rd December, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Gwen with two men on board, which had sailed from Maryport at noon the previous day bound for Workington, had not arrived. At 2.30...
The North Boatshed and Dock: Built In 1915
The North Boatshed and Dock: Built In 1915. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Inshore Rescue Boat
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Inshore Rescue Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs