LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Finance In 1941.: Expenditure.
Expenditure in 1941 was £279,225. That was £11,505 less than in 1940.
It was £105,150 less than in the last year of peace. The reason is that the building of new life-boats has now almost ceased. Only one new...
Category: Articles
Viera-Y-Clarijo
During fine weather on 17th February the Life- boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was called out to the assistance of a vessel making signals of distress. On arrival she found the vessel was on the sands.
She proved to be a...
Services of the Life-Boats In October, November and December. 61 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services
Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S.
Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., died suddenly on 3Oth May, 1966, at the age of 53. Professor Pask was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
HIS LIFE AND...
Category: Obituaries
Vital Statistics
RNLI lifeguards are now on duty in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire. Liz Cook reports on the charity’s drive to put life first on ever more beaches
2007was a breakthrough year for the RNLI. Its lifeguarding service, already...
Category: Articles
A Book of Flags
(Oxford University Press, 15s.) ADMIRAL CAMPBELL and Mr. I. O.
Evans, who has done much valuable and voluntary journalistic work on behalf of the Life-boat Service, have compiled an exhaustive and fascinat- ing book about...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Rescue
The full strength of the Atlantic seems now devoted to the destruction of the frail craft yet rocking on the submerged reef at the mouth of the Channel. The waves rush thunderingly to the attack like squadrons of heavy cavalry. They have...
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A Schoolboy's Help.
THE honorary secretary of the Women's Auxiliary at Folkestone has had from a public schoolboy a gift, in the form of personal service, of the value of £6 14s. 3d. In the course of three holidays he has saved her that sum in...
Category: Donations
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (12)
On the 5th December, 1939, the Broughty Ferry life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Quixotic, of Aberdeen.
COXSWAIN JAMES COULL was awarded the silver medal.
SECOND COXSWAIN GEORGE B....
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Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths.
August The Earl of Bradford who had been president of Newport (Shropshire) branch since its formation in 1972.
September Norman Williams,...
Category: Obituaries