LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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...

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...

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,...

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..

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...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—3rd March, 1938. A collision some miles up the river had resulted in the sinking of a barge, but a steamer picked up one of the crew. Two others were drowned.— Rewards, £19 Is..

Walmer, Kent.—15th March, 1938.

Two vessels had been in collision, but the crew of one had been taken off by a Belgian steamer, and the other vessel could not be found in the fog.— Rewards, £29 Os. Qd..

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