LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 14th of September.

1957, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half south-east of Southwold harbour. The life-boat...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.30 in the morning of the llth of October, 1949; the Civic Guard reported that a radio message had been picked up by the Roches Point Lighthouse, stating that the S.S. Glengariffe had wirelessed that the Daunt...

When Mrs. V. M. Waldock, of Chislehurst, Kent, attended the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. on 9th April, 1968, she brought with her her original life-boat collecting box which she had 'some time before 1930 from a Miss Lawson who was the...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry West of Sheringham. He was appointed assistant motor mech- anic in 1940, became second coxswain in 1947 and coxswain in 1951. Cox- swain West was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the...

WALMEH.—The s.s. Cid, of and for Barcelona, laden with coal from the Tyne, stranded on the Goodwin Sands in a dense fog on the morning of the 6th July. Signals were fired by the South Sand Head Light-vessel in response to which the Life-boat...

THOSE who are old enough to remember the repeal of the navigation laws describe the state of feeling that prevailed among the shipowning class when the measure was carried safely through Parliament as one of absolute panic. Nothing but the...

Freelance journalist Moira Kerr has donated £300 of her prize money to Oban RNLI, having scooped the title of ‘Diageo Journalist
of the Year’ in the annual Highlands and Islands Media Awards. Moira’s donation could cover the...

A great success, particularly with its many young visitors: that was the verdict on the Modern Lifeboat exhibition held from February 21 to April 21 at the South Kensington Science Museum, London. School parties, more than 700 of them, came...