LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

To MICHAEL F. HARDY, on his retirement, after serving for 27 years as coxswain and 4f years as second coxswain of the Eastbourne life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.

To...

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.

Read the following Report of the Chief In- spector and District Inspector of Life-boats on their inquiries into the circumstances attending the accidents to the...

(left) Barnett: length overall 52ft; beam 14ft; draught 4ft 6in; displacement 29 tons; maximum speed, 9 knots; range a! full speed, 350 nautical miles. The Barnett, introduced in 1950, has a crew of seven; she launches down a slipway or lies... - View image in PDF

A Central Appeals Committee of voluntary workers for the R.N.L.I. has been formed under the chairmanship of Mr. Norman Crumbie. Its terms of reference are: (i) To advise, through the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., on any matters affecting fund...

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Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.20 on the morning of the 8th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor boat, whose engine had failed, was being rapidly carried out to sea on the ebb tide. There was a fresh...

AT the report stage and third reading of the Rating and Valuation (Miscel- laneous Provisions) Bill in the House of Lords on the 21st of July, 1955, Earl Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Insti- tution, moved, after clause 7, to insert the...

FIGURES already available show that the year 1958 has been similar to the two preceding years in the demands made on life-boat crews. When a record figure for peacetime of 745 launches on service was established in 1956, this seemed an...