LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fowey, Cornwall.—On the 5th September two men and two women, visitors to Polruan, put out from Polruan in the hired motor boat Ken to go for a trip to the beach on the west side of Atlantic Bay. When the motor boat neared the beach a heavy...

DUO CENTURY MAP roou This exciting map affords the unique opportunity to see an Ordnance Survey I ktoriun First Edition (circa 1880) and a current Landranger map of your area side-by-side in a stunning...

Lowes toft, Suffolk.—At 6.58 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1957, it was reported that a yacht had cap- sized off Claremont pier. The life- boat Greater London (Civil Service No.

3), on temporary duty at the station,...

COXSWAIN DOUGLAS GRANT, of Selsey, and Coxswain Henry West, of Sheringham, have become the first two members of life-boat crews to receive gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.

This fund was established in 1955...

Rhyl, Flintshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 22nd of June, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report from the Rhyl police that a child was adrift on a rubber raft, which was floating out to sea off the Golden Sands...

PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the 22nd December, 1886, the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, bound from Liverpool for Dundalk with a cargo of coal, was seen to run aground on the Causeway Kocks, near Puffin Island, during a strong breeze from the N.W....

Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start Point. Her exact position...

ROYAL ALBERT HALL General Manager: Anthony J. Charlton KENSINGTON, SW7 2AP Tuesday, 13 December, 1977 7.30 p.m.

In aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution THE CREATION HAYDN JILL GOMEZ soprano KENNETH BOWEN tenor...