LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...

ON the evening of Sunday the 23rd of December, last, a choir of over twenty voices, and a harmonium, gathered on the deck and in the cockpit of the Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache in her boat-house, and over the life- boat's radio...

DOCTOR TAKEN TO BADLY INJURED SEAMAN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th April, 1962, the police at Avonmouth dock informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seriously injured on board a ship...

TWO MEN SAVED FROM CLUB'S RESCUE BOAT Hastings, Sussex. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that the Hastings and St. Leonards sailing club's rescue boat Anne Bonaventure was in...

TWENTY-THREE HOUR SERVICE TO TRAWLER Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 12.32 on the morning of the 3rd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded on a wreck in Church Bay, Rathlin Island, but that she...

SECOND COXSWAIN DROWTSED WHILE OUT FISHING Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.35 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the son of the second coxswain, William McLoughlin, had reported that his...

SIR JOHN GHEST GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., died on the 9th of March, 1958, at the age of 89. He joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1921 and was appointed a Vice- President in 1932. He resigned from the Committee in 1956....

EARL HOWE, the former chairman of the Committee of Management, has been appointed honorary chairman for life of the Institution. This appoint- ment brings to an end an active period of work on behalf of the life-boat service extending over...