LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Herbert Ingram Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M.

on the 7th of February, and rendered assistance to the schooner John Lee, of and for Blakeney, from Shields, with a cargo of oilcake, which had...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 11.47 on the night of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was in difficulties ten miles south-west of Bardsey Island. A very strong south-...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 14th July, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a launch engaged for work on a pipe-line two miles north of Hartlepool was in difficulties and needed help. At one o'clock...

THE retirement of Commander T. G.

Michelmore, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, takes effect from the 30th of June, 1958.

Commander Michelmore joined the Life-boat Service as a...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1956 80,036 Notes of the Quarter SIR GODFREY BARIXG, who recently announced his...

The West coast of Ireland saw a dramatic increase in its number of lifeboats over the last decade-and-a-half - representing the largest number of new stations to be established in such a short space of time this century. Nicholas Leach,...

The Humber, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the llth May in response to a message received from the Humber Conservancy that a vessel had collided with the Bull light-vessel during a fog. The...