LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Life-boats were launched to ships in distress 3,760 times. Of these launches 2,212 were to ships in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war. Life-boats rescued 6,376 lives..

In four and a half years of war our life-boatmen have rescued 5536 lives, and have won 200 medals for gallantry. They have rescued twenty-four lives every week since war began..

THE Institution has received a cheque from the Walthamstow Branch of the Transport and General "Workers' Union, and with it a letter, in which, the Branch Secretary writes:— " I hope to send a similar cheque every quarter. It...

HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat stationed in 1868 at Boss Links, Holy Island, has recently been replaced by a new one, 31 feet long, 7£ feet wide and towing 10 oars, double banked. It possesses all the latest improvements, as...

In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat

Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...

ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WIGHT. — It having been considered that a Life-boat placed at Atherfield, on the south-west shore of the Isle of Wight, would be the means of affording material assistance to vessels which are not unfrequently driven on...

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THE Annual Meeting of this Society was held on the 25th May last, at Willis's Rooms, under the chairmanship of his Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society. There were also present a large number of the friends and...