LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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The inquiry into the loss of the trawler Cctsita and the subsequent drownin g of her crew of two opened at Brixham, Devon, on 22nd January, 1968.

The following witnesses gave evidence on behalf of the R.N.L.I.: Mr. F. W....

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—At 5.25 in the evening on the 2nd of Feb- ruary, 1950, the pier master reported that a landing craft of the Royal Navy had fired Verey lights in the direction of the Langford Grounds. At 5.55 the life-boat Fifi...

WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Hastings on 6th April to open the White Rock Pavilion and the new Promenade, he went aboard the Life-boat which was drawn up outside the Life-boat House. Beside the House the fishermen had built a remarkable...

Since the last number of The Lifeboat appeared, the Institution has lost by death several valued friends and workers, among them the distinguished surgeon, Sir William Milligan, M.D., LL.D., J.P.,Chairman of the Manchester, Salford and...

"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...

AYR, SCOTLAND.—The Life-boat at this station has been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 35 ft. long by 10 ft. wide, rowing 12 oars and fitted with 2 drop keels. Like her predecessor she is named the Janet Hoyle, as desired by the...

TOW FOR DREDGER Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 9.50 p.m.

on aoth March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel in the vicinity of St. Govan's lightvessel needed immediate help. There was a fresh...