LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Institution has received a gift of £10 5s. from the children of a Liverpool preparatory school. It came from the sale of tickets for the last two school plays, The Merchant of Venice and The Pied Piper of Hamelin..

Two letters of appreciation of the life-boat service, both enclosing donations, have recently been written to the Institution by old age pensioners.

Eighty-two year old Mrs. Emily Stabback, of Greenwich, London S.E.io,...

Lifeboat Services (from page 281) The divers were landed at Horton at 1441 and the ILB was rehoused and ready for service by 1516.

For this service the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Helmsman...

September, 1984 Joe Duffield, honorary secretary of Largs station branch since 1975, after serving as deputy launching authority from 1972 to 1975..

Starting in March 1942 the Austin Motor Company gave the Institution during the war one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it built for ships' life-boats. These gifts made a total of £1,123. The company also held a...

OCTOBER 12TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

At 12.39 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea 3 1/2 miles S.W. of Towan Head, and the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at...

COVER PICTURE After naming the new Whitby lifeboat, White Rose of Yorkshire, on May 21, HRH the Duchess of Kent went aboard to meet the crew. (1. to r.) Lieut.-Commander H. F.

Teare, RD RNR, divisional inspector of... - View image in PDF

IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...