LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

To ANDREW WHITE, on his retirement, after serving for 31J years as coxswain and 2 years as bowman of the Donaghadee life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.

To JOSIAH WHEATLEY, on his retirement,...

To PATRICK SLINKY, on his retirement, after serving for 28J years as coxswain and 11 years as second coxswain of the Bally- cotton life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.

To MICHAEL BONOGHUE, on...

Community spirit The residents of the tranquil island of Alderney in the Channel Islands are reknowned for being laid back, but with three lives in danger, the community sprang into actionA 13-year-old girl was knocked off her feet and swept...

Similar service was rendered on the 10th December by the Life-boat to the crews, numbering in all eighteen men, of the schooners Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper. A very severe gale from the W.N.W. had suddenly sprung up, causing a...

AGAIN this year, as two years ago, the organizers of the Marine and Small Craft Exhibition, which is held at the Agri- cultural Hall, Islington, very kindly gave the Institution a free site at the Exhi- bition. Here the Institution showed a ...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boy was drifting out to sea in a rubber dinghy off South Beach. Ten minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...

Dover, Kent.—At 4.20 on the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1955, Lloyds signal station reported that a whaler, with five boys from Dover College oil board, which had a dinghy in tow with three boys on board, had been blown out of Dover...

Clarke, Chapman Ships' Auxiliary Machinery BACKED by three quarters of a century of experience in the manufacture of Deck Auxiliaries, the Company has built up a tradition of efficiency and dependability which extends throughout the...