LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aberystwyth, and New Quay, Cardigan- shire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the Outward Bound Sea School's ketch Golden Valley left Aberystwyth for New Quay, towing the fifty-feet fishing boat Camelia, of New Quay. At...

Emlyn Hughes, the former England football captain, while visiting his home town of Barrow-in-Furness, toppled a pile of pennies which had been growing on the bar of Roa Island Hotel. Barrow businessmen Peter Jackson and Mike McKenzie doubled... - View image in PDF

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 10.50 on the night of the 25th of May, 1954, the Lytham police rang up to say that the pile beacon, known as Peet's Light, three and a quarter miles west of Lytham pier in the estuary of the River...

Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford ; Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., of Tynemouth.

THE Committee of Management at their meeting last June elected Miss Alice Marshall, the retiring Honorary Secretary of its Oxford Branch, a...

UNITED STATES.

THE Annual Report for the United States Coastguard for the year ending 30th June, 1915, indicates a new arrangement by which, in accordance with the passage of the Coastguard Act...

YACHT TOWED OFF ROCKS IN GALE Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 12.47 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress close inshore off West Dale Point. There was a...

COXSWAIN Patrick Power of Dunmore East, County Waterford, has achieved the remarkable distinction of winning the Institution's bronze medal for the fourth time. His award was for the rescue of six men from the Dutch motor vessel Jan...

" STEADILY onwards," may be said to be the policy of the Institution, in regard to the installation of motive power in its Fleet of Life- boats.

A year ago we gave a description of the various boats which were...