LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

About a fortnight later, on Saturday June 18, Caroline Finch was on passage to St Helier, in Jersey, on one leg of her extended crew training passage to station; she was under the command of Christopher Price, deputy divisional inspector of...

The war in Europe ended at one minute after midnight of May 8th., and the last launch of a life-boat was one minute before the end. An mdei- vatei explosion, either torpedo or mine, had blown up a Norwegian minesweeper, one of four, fifteen...

The Life-boat Oldham was launched on service at 11 P.M. on the 16th March in answer to signals of distress made by the schooner Two Brothers, of Car- narvon. There was a whole S.S.W.

gale blowing and a very heavy sea, and...

SUMMER LOTTERY

Ms Oke of Cheshire scooped the £5,000 first prize in the Summer Lifeboat
Lottery and enjoyed a visit to Hoylake Lifeboat Station to celebrate her win.

To aaaompany the Life Boat Journal.

WRECK CHART OF THE BRITISH ISLES FOR THE YEAR 1912-13.

(Compiled from the Board of Trade Wreck Register), Showing the Wrecks and serious Casualties. Also the Lifeboat...

Eric Hudson, district engineer (eastern). Mr Hudson joined (he Institution as motor mechanic at Sunderland in 1946, became a travelling mechanic in Scotland in 1950 and had been district engineer in the south east or east since...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.20 P.M. on the 5th July, 1939, the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a pile-driver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.\V. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea.

The...

WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...