LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 10.55 on the night of the 8th of September, 1951, the Polruan coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles south of Fowey Harbour, and at 11.15 the life-boat C.D.E.C. was launched. A moderate sea was running with a...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Coverack (Cornwall) life-boat being launched on service and...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on this page.

It is a photograph of the 42' Aldeburgh life-boat The Alfred and...

IN the August issue of The Life-Boat it was announced that the Committee of Management had decided, as from April, 1920, to give a further increase of 25 per cent, in the rewards paid to Coxswains and crews for going afloat to save life....

Yarmouth, and Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 7.1 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1954, the S.S.

Ardgantock, of Greenock, wirelessed that she was listing badly and was in danger of foundering twelve miles west-by-...

AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the Birthday Honours list were: Knight Bachelor: Alderman Martin Wallace, J.P., former president of the Belfast branch.

Companion of the...

The Spanish Life-boat Society has presented a certificate—their Diploma de Voto de Gracias—to the coxswains and crews of the Sennen Cove and Penlee life-boats as a token of deep appreciation for their efforts to locate the crew of the...

IN order to be ready for any emergency on the coast the Institution keeps at its Storeyard at Poplar, on the Thames, a Eeserve Fleet of Life-boats. One of these Boats can be sent at a moment's notice to any place on the coast where the...