LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.45 on the morning of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small canoe had capsized off Castle beach and that its two occupants were in the water. The life- boat Crawford and...

MAY 13TH. - GALWAY BAY, AND FENIT, CO. KERRY. Three men, who had left Kilronan in a canoe, had been reported missing, but they reached land in County Clare.

- Rewards : Galway Bay, £13 16s. ; Fenit, £13...

DURING the last few months several addi- tional life-boat stations have been formed along our coasts, and some old boats replaced by others on an improved construction.

This is an important work, which we hope to see...

Red Bay's C class lifeboat was involved in an unusual incident last Autumn when she was involved in the hunt for four cases of oranges…. - View image in PDF

Dungeness, Kent. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that two vessels had been in collision twelve miles south-south-west of Dungeness. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E....

BOY SERIOUSLY ILL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 5.10 p.m. on 28th August, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a six-year-old boy who was seriously ill to hospital at South Uist. The lifeboat R. A. Colby...

ABERDEEN ON-124S(17-24):Mar 9,Apr 9.15 D-536:Mar 27,Apr 9 ABERSOCH B-790:Apr9(x2).10 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Apr 22,25 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28)Aprn AITH ON-123Z(17-14):)an 30,Mar 9,27 ALDEBURGH ON-ll93(l2-34):Feb11.

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New Year Honours Among the awards in the New Year Honours list were: BEM David W. Evans, coxswain of New Quay (Dyfed) lifeboat. Coxswain Evans joined the lifeboat crew in 1958, was bowman from 1962 to 1964, second coxswain until 1965 when he...