LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the night of the 18th August, intelligence was received at Lynie Regis that a vessel was in distress, being anchored off a lee-shore in a heavy gale, 15 miles to the eastward of Lyme. At 4 A.M.

on the 19th, the...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — At 5.25 in the afternoon on the 23rd of May, 1949, the Aberdovey coastguard telephoned that the ketch of the Out- ward Bound Sea School—the old New Quay sailing life-boat, which had been presented to the...

IN 1957, for the second year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total figure was 716, and the last two years have been the only years in time of peace in which the figure of 700 was exceeded.

Dr. BALANCE SHEET.—31st December, 1867. Or.

&. s. d. £. s. d.

To Creditors for Lifeboats, Life-boat Carriages, Lease of the House of the Institution, Boat-houses, &c. . . . 5,151 13 0 To...

In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...

The first Gold Medal to be awarded after the establishment of the Lifeboat journal was not to a lifeboatman but was for an outstanding act of individual bravery following the wreck of the Royal Charter near Moelfre, in Anglesey, on 26...

PENZANCE. — The brigantine Jeune Hortense, of Nantes, bound from Brest for Fowey, in ballast, dragged her anchors during a heavy ground sea on the 17th May, and drove ashore on the Eastern Green just under the Long Rock. The Dora Life-boat...

Honorary Life-Governor.

Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the Littlehampton branch, has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable services which he...