LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sir Frederick Moneypenny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., of Belfast.

BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...

Motor Life-boat presented by King George's Fund for Sailors.

ON 22nd June the inaugural ceremony was held of a new motor life-boat which has been built for the station at The Lizard, Cornwall. It took place in the...

Standing by in Hurricane HAVING RECEIVED information from the Coastguard at 0618 on Thursday, December 6, 1973, that the trawler Navena was ashore on the rocks north of Copinsay Light, the Kirkwall(Orkneys) honorary secretary asked for...

Climber falls THREE YOUTHS WERE CLIMBING down the cliff at Wylfa Headland on Wednesday, April 13, when a peg pulled out of the cliff and one of the boys fell about 35 feet into the sea, striking the cliff face and a submerged rock on his way...

The Men and the Boats by Bernard Ashley (Allman & Son, 15s.) is appro- priately the first book in a new series entitled 'Serving our Society'. Other volumes on the police and the fire service are in preparation. The book is...

Two girls of Stamford High School, Lincolnshire, Rosetta Birkbeck and Gillian Foot, enjoy collecting for the R.N.L.I. Late last year they sent £33 14s. 4d., and explained:' We have made the collection in several different ways. Six...

With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...

Active Membership The growth of our active membership continues to be encouraging, and at 13 September 1989 consisted of 149,076 adults, (24,743 Governors and 124,333 Shoreline) with Storm Force reaching 9,592 individuals and 144 groups.<...