LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: January 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 8 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: November 21, December 15 and 24 Aith, Shetland 52ft Burnett: November 13 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft bin Rather:...

Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present

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Honours for Hugh

On Friday 6 March, Her Majesty the Queen handed Captain Hugh Fogarty his MBE at...

Ix 1950 the Committee of Management of the Institution resolved that life- boat stations which had been pre- sented with a vellum to commemorate the completion of a hundred years would be presented with another to mark the completion of a...

To JOHN MATTHEWS, on his retirement, after serving for 30 years as coxswain and 2| years as bowman of the Moelfre life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.

To WILLIAM II....

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ftArun: Octobers Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: September 19 and 26 Aith, Shetland 52ft Burnett: November 4 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in Rather: September 20 (twice) and October 16 Angle, Dyfed 46ft 9in Watson:...

The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, reports from the International Lifeboat Conference in UruguayA hundred or so delegates from 26 different countries gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the 17th International...

DURING March life-boats went out on service 52 times and rescued 48 lives.

TO THE HELP OF BARGES IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported...

The Institution has now completed the full history of the services of life-boats during the war of 1939-45. This has been prepared for purposes of his- torical record and is not for general distribution. The story of the Life-boat Service in...