LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Recruitment drive Peterborough Shoreline club No 8 have asked that it be known that they are still very much alive and kicking, meeting on the third Wednesday of every month. They are appealing both to existing Shoreline members within their...

Thick fog VISIBILITY WAS DOWN to a few yards when, at 2210 on Wednesday, June 16, Salcombe's 47' Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in thick fog to begin a search, with the aid of her radar, for a 19' cabin...

Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : FREDERICK J. WEBB, 27J years coxswain of the Weston-super-Mare...

NO STEERING Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.35 a.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Sheba HI was secured to the Helwick lightvessel and was unable to steer because of rudder trouble. The tide...

Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...

FISHING BOAT ESCORTED IN NEAR GALE Plymouth, Devon. At 12.46 on the afternoon of the 15th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat June- Lippet, which was returning to Plymouth from a fishing trip,...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 3.50 p.m. on 9th November, 1969, news was received that a motor boat was drifting in the bay about one mile north east of Ramsgate and was signalling for assistance. The lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her...

GIFTS or bequests for any purposes are always most gratefully received by the Committee of Management. The most acceptable and most generous of all is a gift or bequest for general purposes, which leaves the Committee free to apply it in any...