LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS TALLON, on his retirement, after serving for 4 years as coxswain, 11J years as second coxswain, and previously 18J years as bowman of the Clogher Head life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, and a gratuity in lieu of a...
Category: Awards
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 4th August, 1859. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.E.S., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
IRB Launches (1)
SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...
Category: Services
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Cromer and Penlee.
THE new Cromer Motor Life-boat is the third of the Norfolk and Suffolk type to be constructed, the other two being the boats stationed at Walton-on-Naze and Lowestoft. The second of these two boats, the...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
Category: Articles
A New Life-Boat Film
A NEW life-boat film called Gale Warnings, with a spoken commentary, is now in use, and the Institution's branches can ask for it at any time for showing in cinemas, at meetings, or privately.
The film is designed to...
Category: Articles
Lady Harrison's Gift
THE naming ceremony of a motor life-boat at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, took place on 25th June. The life-boat is a gift from Lady Harrison in memory of her late husband, Sir Heath Harrison, Bt., the shipowner, of Cheshire and Hampshire, who...
Category: Donations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW BRIGHTON.—The tubular Life- boat on this station having become unfit for further service has, in accordance with the wishes of the crew, been replaced by a non-self-righting sailing Life-boat of the Watson type, 43 ft. long and 12 ft. 6...
Category: Articles
Are you a lucky boater?
Bishop Skinner Marine, is offering one lucky boat owner the opportunity to win £500 off their boat insurance policy for a year. To be in with a chance of winning, call Bishop Skinner on 0800 783 8057 or visit bishopskinner.com for a...
Category: Articles
Letters
Thirty-five years back • Commander Pearson's encounter with the lifeboat service off the Scottish coast during the last war, described in his letter published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, interested me very much. Having spent a...
Category: Correspondence