LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 17th January the s.s. Plawsworih, of Newcastle, stranded off Workington, and thirteen of the crew were rescued by the motor life-boat.—Rewards, bronze medal, thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and monetary rewards...

A Notes of the Quarter (47 Contents Lifeboat Services 149 Vollime XT VTT Lifeboat Services, September, October and November, 1980 154 N Umber 475 Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part III: plated up 155 Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919,...

Let Not The Deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood published byHarper Collins at £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 00 647590 6 Novels which centre around the lifeboat service are rare enough, but one which is well constructed, gripping and also moving is a...

THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...

AN invention has recently been brought to perfection, and patented, which we think we may fairly charac- terize as one of the most ingenious of modern times. This invention, which is the production of Mr. J. Boydell, an engineer of...

Simon Cooke, a member of Torbay lifeboat crew, unearths an unusual explanation for an unusual service...

Lifeboat crews up and down the coast spend many hours searching for people reported missing , but not many get called...

H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on the 6th March, 1962. Reporting on the past year's work, Earl Howe, Chairman of the...

Commander S. W. F. Bennetts, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of life- boats, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Rottingdean on 1st of April, 1961. He joined the Institution as District Inspector (General) in 1949 and in...