LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HARWICH, ESSEX ; POLKERRIS and FOWEY, CORNWALL BULL BAY, ANGLESEY ; TROON and PORT ERROLL, SCOTLAND. — It having been found necessary to replace the Life-boats at these stations by new boats, the crews were as usual called upon to furnish...

Award* to Honorary Workers.

SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat was published, the following presenta- tions/have been made to Honorary, Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in recognition of their*...

With deep regret we record the following deaths: MARCH 1988: Mrs Marjorie Lambert, committee member and patron of Birmingham Branch from 1985 to 1988. She had previously been vice chairman of the Edgbaston and Harborne Ladies' Guild...

AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...

Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...

AUGUST 5TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.10 A.M. information was received from the resident naval officer at Berwick that an aeroplane was down in the sea off Berwick high lighthouse.

She was an American...

By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...

70-year-old Jane Trembath on her epic row down the River Dart, escorted by Torbay's new D class inflatable, and (inset) Jane at the oars during her 25-mile fund raising trip.

(Inset photo courtesy Western Morning... - View image in PDF