LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Broken rudder A YACHT in trouble to the south of the Calf Islands, off the southern Irish coast, was firing red flares. They were sighted and reported to the honorary secretary of Baltimore lifeboat station at 1320 on the afternoon of Friday...

RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY. — The barque Hjemlos, of and for Grimstadt, from Belfast in ballast, was observed about three miles S.W. of Bhoscolyn, apparently unmanageable, during a moderate gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea, on the 18th December....

After Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, were married at Uplyme Parish Church, Lyme Regis, on 8th October, 1967, the couple left...

On the evening of the 23rd October, the Life-boat Abraham Thomas was launched, through a heavy surf, to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Saucy Jack, of Yarmouth, which vessel parted from her anchors, from, the violence of the...

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...

Exmouth Helmsman Roger Jackson thought he would never launch a lifeboat again. But now four young men owe him their lives

Exmouth is a popular seaside destination but on the afternoon of 23...

IN the last number of The Life-boat a full account was given of the rescue by the Cloughey life-boat of the seven men of the South Rock Lightvessel which was adrift in a gale. The Insti- tution made money awards amounting to £126 155....

THE hundred and fifteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 26th April. Over 2,500 people were present.

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...