LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weston-super-Mare: The cave on the south side of Brean Down from which three trapped boys were rescued on November 12; on that day a full southerly gale was blowing and there was a rough sea with breaking surf. For this service the thanks of... - View image in PDF

The Clogher Head Station, Co. Louth, and the Drogheda branch, which was also a life-boat station until 1929, have lost one of their most valued sup- porters by the death of Mr. R. O. Hill.

For twenty years, from 1911 to...

At about 9.30 A.M. on the 16th July, a report was received that a fishing-boat was flying signals of distress about four miles from the land. A strong S.S.E. gale pre- | vailed at the time with a rough sea, I and the ...

Royal meeting Guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall will be Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The ceremony takes place at 3.00 on the afternoon of Tuesday May 12, 1987, when the...

The Institution has been so unfortunate as to lose two of its members by death within a few days of one another, Lord Brownlow and Mr. Henry Fargus.

Lord Brownlow, who became a member of the Committee in 1924, died on 19th...

Miss Elizabeth Armitage who began fund raising for the Institution in 1955; she was chairman of Brixham ladies guild until 1978 and was president at the time of her death. Miss Armitage was a.

0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.

Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...

The Navy and Air Force have been no less generous. During 1940 the Navy contributed £2099, nearly five times as much as in 1939. The appeal to the Air Force was made in September 1940. Up to the end of February 1941 the contributions...