LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Maldon Little Ship Club's New Year's Day sponsored yacht tender rowing race was won by Brian Watkins (I.) and Malcolm Holland.

Twenty-six boats took part and £.203 was raised for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF

Armistice Day last year was celebrated by the Life-boat Crew at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston in the same way as during the previous two years.

The Crew, headed by the Coxswain and Second Coxswain, each bearing a wreath,...

assistance whenever and wherever it is needed.' There followed two unusual presentations to Coxswain Len Patten.

The first was a spare pair of gleaming propellers from the Bitterne and Woolston Round Table and the...

A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers was held at. Folkestone on 2nd May.

The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor of Folkestone and Major Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P., Under-Secretary of State for Air, and...

Shortly after 11 A.M. on Sunday morning the 4th March, a message was sent to the Cox- swain of the Life-boat that a vessel was ashore between the " East Mouse " and the mainland. Steps were at once taken to launch the Life-boat...

ON A CLEAR DAY at Walmer the unaccustomed visitor can be forgiven for doubting his own knowledge of geography when he sees the bold outline of France, seemingly only a pebble's throw across the curving surface of the English Channel....

A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...

ON 31st December, 1938, Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., retired from the service of the Institu- tion, having been chief inspector of life-boats since August, 1930.

Commander Drury, whose early years were spent...