LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Presentation of French Medals at Torbay and Longhope
THE two silver and six bronze medals, with diplomas, which were awarded to Coxswain William Mogridge, of Torbay, and his crew by the French Government for the rescue of the skipper of the trawler Satanicle, on 30th December, 1935, were...
Category: Medals
Naming Ceremonies and Dedications
Exmouth A WARM SUMMER'S DAY on the South Devon coast, royal visitors and a naming ceremony were guaranteed to bring holidaymakers, local inhabitants and lifeboat supporters to every vantage point in and around the Exmouth docks when...
Category: Inaugurations
Fishermen and Fishing-Boats
Although this Journal is chiefly intended to circulate information respecting life-boats and other means of saving life from ship- wreck, we cannot overlook the fact that in many, if not in most cases, it is to fisher- men we must look to...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Visit of the Deputy-Chairman and Sir Gerard Noel to St. Abbs, Dunbar and Skateraw
THE management and the practical working of a great national service like that of the Life-boat demand the constant attention of the technical officers of the Institution ; and these, under the direction of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats,...
Category: Articles
Brigadier R. J. P. Wyatt
BRIGADIER R. J. P. WYATT, M.C., T.D., D.L., J.P., District Organising Secre- tary for the South-East of England from August 1927 to December 1952, died on the 22nd of October, 1954.
Brigadier Wyatt was educated at...
Category: Obituaries
Four Days of Gales. Six Launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
DUEING the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of November there were six launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. The crew of the Cromer station were out on service continuously for forty-five hours, while...
Category: Services
Two Inaugural Ceremonies In Wales. Tenby and Angle, Pembrokeshire
Tenby and Angle, Pembrokeshire.
D USING August the Inaugural Cere- monies took place of two new Motor Life-boats which have been stationed on the coast of Wales at the Stations of Tenby and Angle, both in Pembroke-...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXI.—ST. DAVID'S.
Augusta, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars The Augusta was stationed at St. David's in 1869 her cost being subscribed by the Earl of Dart- mouth's tenantry in Staffordshire and...
Category: Articles
Shoreline and Storm Force
Membership survey LAST YEAR questionnaires were sent to 2,000 Shoreline members in a survey which aimed to find out more about membership to help future recruiting.
Over 1,000 completed forms were returned and analysed by...
Category: Articles