LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A NEW book on the Life-boat Service is to appear in the autumn. It will be by Major-General the Right Hon. J. E.

Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a Vice-President of the Institution, and will have a foreword by H.R.H....

Royal visit: The Duchess of Kent paid a visit to Wells lifeboat station on October 4 and was shown over the station's two lifeboats by Coxswain David Cox BEM (1) who holds both silver and bronze bravery medals and who has been coxswain... - View image in PDF

Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 5.30 in the evening, on the 31st of May, 1950, in calm weather, the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched for exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. M.

Clifford Gibbons, and the district...

THE life-boat service can look back with both satisfaction and gratitude on the year 1963 as a whole. Life-boats saved no fewer than 354 lives; the new inshore rescue boats saved 10 lives, and 224 lives were saved by shore- boats in services...

Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and spreading.

Its surface, once sealed, is...

SUCH is the title of an interesting blue-book recently presented to Parliament by the Harbour Department of the Admiralty.

The register is necessarily dry and bald.

From the number of columns (22)...

Sweet Revenge Please allow me to have sweet revenge on my friend Mr Tony Pearce, who is the auxiliary in charge of St Davids coastguard station.

When I first took over as the honorary secretary of St Davids lifeboat station...

WITH deep regret we have to announce the death, on active service, of Lieut.- Commander H, T. Gartside-Tipping, R.N., a member of the Committee of Management, who was killed in action while in command of the armoured yacht Sanda, on 25th...