LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT was present on 2nd November, 1938, at the Odeon Theatre, kindly lent by Mr.

Oscar Deutsch (chairman and managing director of Odeon Theatres, Ltd.), at a special film performance in aid of the Life...

Air crash search THE station honorary secretary of Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour) was alerted by Lee-on-Solent Coastguard MRSC at 1105 on April 30, 1987 with news of a crashed aircraft, down in East Solent near Horse Sand...

ANNUAL AWARDS 1979 The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman during 1979 has been made to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan for the rescue of the crew of four of the Panamanian cargo vessel Revi in a...

Jan. 2.—Three men s-aved a man who had fallen overboard from the hrigantine Thomas, of Lowestoft, which was lying at anchor oS Lowestoft Harbour.—Reward, 15s.

Jan. 5.—Six men saved four fishermen whose boat hnd been...

RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.

Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...

[Abridged from the Newcastle-on- Tyne Daily Papers.] THE new life-boat, recently presented by GEORGE JOHN FENWICK, Esq., to the port of Tynemouth, was launched there on Friday, the 13th November, with an unusual degree of ceremony. The boat...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 23rd day of March, 1895, THE EIGHT EON.

LORD TWEEDMOUTH, Lord Privy Seal...

THURSDAY, 14th June, 1906.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...