LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 10.38 on the morning of the 2nd August, 1962, the honorary secretary at Lowestoft passed on to the honorary secretary at Aldeburgh a report from the Lowestoft port medical officer...

AT Quoyle, in Northern Ireland, aquatic sports and a carnival were held on 18th July in aid of the Downpatrick branch of the Institution. The Cloughey motor life-boat was present and one of the events was a balloon race. Prizes were given to...

IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...

Land's End tragedy—parents' appeal The parents of the four Buckinghamshire schoolboys who were drowned off Land's End in May have made an appeal to the public to help them buy a lifeboat. The parents have asked that the fund...

New lifeboats named and dedicated Mudeford -Atlantic 21 Ken DerhamSaturday, 2 February will long be remembered in Mudeford as the day when the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was named Ken Derham. by her namesake. The day was cold and...

THE Committee of Management have had before them the question of Sunday concerts and other Sunday entertain- ments ; and it has been represented to them that support for the Life-boat Cause may be made an excuse for the promotion of Sunday...

Anchor Chanty.

BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.

" She therefore stood by the vessel until dawn."—Honorary Secretary's...

Maritime Life and Traditions published by Le Chasse- Maree and WoodenBoat at £5.50 (quarterly) Newsagent's shelves are awash with magazines catering for almost every conceivable interest or hobby, and the maritime world has its fair...