LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Maritime England A YEAR-LONG celebration of the sea is planned for Maritime England 1982 by the English Tourist Board. There may be as many as 2,000 special events put on in different parts of the country for the pleasure of visitors from...

IN July Coxswain Roland Moore, coxswain of the Barrow life-boat, received a letter from four very young supporters. It contained a £i contribution.

"Dear Mr. Moore," they wrote. "Last month our Melanie,...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Robert Brown of Swanage, who has been coxswain since 1941. He was assistant mechanic from 1928 to 1934 and second coxswain from 1934 to 1941. During his period of service Swanage life-boats have...

IN 1957, for the second year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total figure was 716, and the last two years have been the only years in time of peace in which the figure of 700 was exceeded.

THE sum of £250,000 which the Institution needs each year to maintain the life-boat service works out at five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles. In a number of its appeals the Institution has been asking for this...

NOV. 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At A.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer at Dover that the Folkestone Gateway Lightship had broken away from her moorings and was driving towards minefields. A whole S.S.W. gale was blowing,...

The Norwegian flag was flying when the model of Cromer's 48ft 6in Oakley lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed was presented to the RNLI at Poole HQ last December, tl 10 r) Frederik Paulson- Linnekogel, brother of the original modelmaker, Frank... - View image in PDF

WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...