LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bob Kemm (r). assistant general manager of Leicester Bui/ding Societv, hands a cheque for £8.000 to Lord Stanley of Alderley. a member of the Committee of Management, at the central jetty. Earls Court.. - View image in PDF

Section Services by RNLB Shoreline The 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat, Shoreline, stationed at Arbroath in Scotland and paid for out of the proceeds of a special appeal to recruit new Shoreline members, carried out a noteworthy service in...

OWING to the space taken by the accounts of the winter gales and the report of the Prince of Wales's visit to Edinburgh and Glasgow, it has been.

necessary to hold over a number of articles and reports which otherwise...

Coxswain William Gammon, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who won the bronze medal in 1941 for rescuing the crew of a ship wrecked among the coast defences, has now won the gold medal for rescuing the crew of 42 of a Canadian frigate...

A LADY living in a Suffolk village started to have a collecting boat for the Life-boat Service in May 1945. In Mav of this year she sent back the boat for "the sixth time, with £22 Ss. 7d. in it. Altogether in the three years she...

SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...

FOR SHORELINE this year's London International Boat Show was the best ever: through the efforts of the band of voluntary workers who gave up a fortnight of their time to help us we signed on 1,153 new members, and I would like to thank...

Girvan, June 25 The second of the new 33ft Brede class lifeboats to go on station in Scotland was named Philip Vaux at a ceremony which took place at Girvan Harbour on Saturday June 25. Largely funded from a bequest by the late Mrs Elizabeth...