LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BY the death of Major Ernest Read Cooper, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the llth of February, at the age of 83, the Life-boat Service lost an old and distinguished friend. Born at Blythburgh, Suffolk, in 1865,- he spent the greater part of his...

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FOR a service in which Bridlington inshore rescue boat literally had to bounce over rocks on her way in to rescue two young men who had fallen over cliffs the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum have been accorded to the IRB helms-...

LEGACIES PAID TO THE ROYAL NATIONAL' LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION DURING THE TEN YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1892.

[Legacieg under £250 are omitted after having oeeu published twice in tfce Annual Eeporfa.} Amount...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.30 on the night of the 6th of September, 1955, the police rang up to say that a woman had reported that the motor launch Noddy, which had been out all day with her son and three friends on board, had not returned....

Shoreline's BMW car competition was won by Squadron Leader P. L. Whitaker (I.). The car was presented to him at Poole a few days after the draw by Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston (r.), a deputy chairman of the Committee of Management... - View image in PDF

JUNE 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 A.M. on the 16th June, a vessel in the Barley Picle was flying the “ Not under control ” signal. She was kept under observation. At noon a tug went out but found that the vessel,...

BRIGADIER-GENERAL W. S. SWABEY, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., who died in September at the age of 68, had a distinguished career in the Royal Army Service Corps. During the war of 1914 to 1918 he was Deputy Director of Supplies in France, and...