LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 111. Lives Rescued 124.

Services to vessels in distress through enemy action are marked • •• Other services arising out of the zcor are marked •.

November Meeting.

Walton and...

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...

THE accompanying graphic accounts of the wreck of the Indian Chief, and of the noble rescue of a portion of her crew by the Bradford self-righting Life-boat, sta- tioned at Ramsgate, appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th and 18th Jan.,...

Speedboat on Pye Sands • It was with very great interest that I read of the gallantry awards to members of the crew of Edian Courtauld for their successful rescue of a speedboat's complement on August 15, 1973 ('Lifeboat Services'...

ON 27th May, H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This is the seventh Motor Life-boat to be named by the Prince.

The Aldeburgh boat is the first of a new type...

• 'In the lifeboat service people are all important.' With this, the opening sentence of his foreword, Patrick Howarth sets the pattern of his latest and most intriguing book on the RNLI, Lifeboats and Lifeboat People (White Lion...

A voluntary service In NEWS POINT on page 41 of your autumn 1986 issue, you state that a majority of those questioned in a recent public opinion survey, believe that the Government should fund the lifeboat service, if not entirely, at least...

CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...