LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A NEW PROTOTYPE launching tractor was placed on extended evaluation trials at Ffoylake lifeboat station on Tuesday April 12, 1983. This new tractor has been developed jointly by the Institution and M. A. Bigland (Preparations) Limited of...

Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

THE COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and & PENSION, have been awarded to :— . ' FREDERICK BARNES, 19J years coxswain and 13 years second coxswain, and 2J years...

AN hour's programme on the Life-boat Service was broadcast by the B.B.C.

in its Home Service on- Sunday, the •23rd of November, under the title "On Life-saving Service." It told the story of the Service from...

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Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 2.15 early on the morning of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1953, the South Gare coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Albano, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had gone aground in Tees Bay and had asked for tugs and a...

JULY 29TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 1 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Light-vessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.

A strong S.W. wind...

On March 2nd, 1941, the "New Yovk Times" published a leading aiticlt on the work of the British Life-boat Service: "The R.N.L.I." it said, "has been called the noblest of England's charitable societies. Though...

AFTER forty years' service in the Life- boat, during twenty of which he was Coxswain, Mr. Thos. Sparshott has re- tired with the Institution's pension. On 25th July a meeting was held in the Selsey Life-boat House, at which the...