LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(continued from page 270) away and, on the first attempt to launch through the heavy surf, the boat was thrown back broadside on to the beach.

With perseverance, however, the crew managed to get through the surf and then...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th of December, 1955, a doctor rang up the life-boat station to say that the keeper of St. Helen's Fort at Spithead was seriously ill. He asked if he could he taken to...

MARCH 15TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.

The Belgian fishing vessel Grace of God was in distress, but her crew were rescued by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £19 1s..

THE work of the Life-boat Service does not grow less. It is actually increasing.

In spite of all that is being done, by new inventions, to make travel by sea safer as well as more comfortable, 146 more calls were made for...

Lifeboat People IN THE NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST the British Empire Medal was awarded to Alfred William Lacey, who has been the motor mechanic of Margate lifeboat since 1947; from 1940 to 1947 he served as assistant...

On 19 October some 200 people gathered in Brighton Marina village square for the naming ceremony of the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Thelma Glossop which was funded by Mr and Mrs Roy Glossop, in memory of Mr Glossop's first wife,... - View image in PDF

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Covenant is an old-fashioned word which in modern English is the equivalent of 'undertake' or 'promise'. If an individual or a company undertakes to pay a charity a certain sum each year for a minimum of seven years, then the...