LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aith, Shetland*, and Droughty Ferry, Dundee.

Two naming ceremonies of new motor life-boats took place in Scotland during September, at Aith in the Shetlands and Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Both life- boats were the gifts of...

By Councillor Alexander Robertson, Honorary Secretary of the Eastbourne Station.

THERE died in Eastbourne on 16th February, 1937, a lady, Mrs. Caroline Allchorn, who was a hundred years old last year. She was born on 3rd...

THE Life-boat Institution's depot at Boreham Wood was completed in July, 1939. It replaced the old store-yard on the Thames at Poplar, which had served the Institution for more than fifty years.

The Poplar store-yard...

AT 3.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1955, Coxswain William Cox. of Wells, was told by the coastguard that a message had been received from the S.S. Richmond Queen, of London, that the S.S. Zor, of Istanbul, was in distress six miles...

Last year some boys belonging to the Bluebird Navigators visited the RNLI Depot at Boreham Wood with Mr Jim Garrard, of Kesgrove, Suffolk, their leader. Mr Garrard puts on his static displays for the RNLI all around the east coast and does...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CAMPBELTOWN JANUARY 1 9TH. - CAMPBLE- TOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND P O R T P A T R I C K , W I G T O W N - SHIRE. At seven minutes to eight in the morning a message came from the coastguard at Southend that a ship was...

HAVING referred elsewhere to the very practical help rendered by the Military in assisting in the launch of the Formby Life-boat, we are very glad to be able to record that the Senior Service has not been behind in rendering help when help...

THE R.N.L.I. has had a long association with firms at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the construction of life-boats. The earliest life-boats were built by S. E. Saunders and later Messrs. J. Samuel White. Today life-boat construction is...