LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN recognition of long and valuable co-opera- tion, the Gold Brooch or Pendant and the Record of Thanks have been awarded to the following Honorary Officials of Branches and Guilds and other Honorary Workers :— Mr. EDWARD DEAN, ...

IN July, 1948, Coxswain Frederick Upton, of Walmer, recorded a talk for the National Broadcasting System of Ke y York, to be broadcast in America.

"Hullo, America! "This is Freddy Upton, coxswain of the Walmer...

An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.

Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...

THE table below gives details of the services of the life-boats during a period of twenty-four hours on the 28th-29th of July.

Station Launches Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued ...

ONCE many life-boatmen considered it an unlucky gift to swim too well but since those days things have changed. For well over a year now the R.N.L.I, has been evaluating the use of swimmers from life-boats, as well as the kind of special...

Eight men plucked from fishing vesselCoxswain Albert Sutherland of the Fraserburgh lifeboat City of Edinburgh has been awarded the thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on vellum following a service in which the...

Every ticket counts The Lifeboat Lottery has been raising essential funds for over 25 years. During this time it has raised in excess of £12M - so thank you to all those who have supported the RNLI in this way Thanks to changes in...

The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 1,549.

Of these, 13 were lost in the Embla, wrecked near Blyth in a snow-storrn, on the 7th of January; 290 in the Tayleur, wrecked at...