LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thursday, 3rd September, 1863. Captain Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Report of Captain DAVID ROBERTSON, K.N., the Assistant-Inspector of Lifeboats of the Institution, of the 3rd...

ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...

• THERE HAVE BEEN many lifeboat histories produced by Jeff Morris in recent years, all of which have been meticulously researched and illustrated.

The Story of the Hoylake and West Kirby Lifeboats is no exception. He traces...

BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...

WITH reference to our article under the above heading in the May issue of the Life-boat Journal, we are now able, through the courtesy of the British Consul-General at St. Petersburg, to supplement our survey by giving some details with...

The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.

COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.

COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...

The following coxswains, members of lifeboat creii's and shore helpers were awarded certificates of sen-ice on their retirement and, in addition.

those entitled to them bv the Institution's regulations, were awarded...

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