LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.59 on the night of the 31st of August, 1957, the Hart- land Point coastguard reported that the yacht Eidolon, of Plymouth, was firing red flares six miles south-west of Hartland Point. Her steering gear had broken and...

SICK MAN TAKEN OFF U.S. NAVAL VESSEL Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the United States naval vessel Upshur, which was 32 miles north-east of...

FALL FROM CLIFF Swanage, Dorset. At 3.13 p.m. on I3th October, 1963, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff by Anvil Point. At 3.20 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a gentle...

At 12.45 a.m. on 27th June, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of the yacht Deux Amis and her crew of four.

She was overdue on passage from Granville and the weather was rapidly deteriorating.

There was...

Penlee, Cornwall - At n p.m. on 25th December, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed to meet the tanker Saga Surf which had a very sick man on board. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...

COMMANDER A. J. O'B. TWOHIG, K.M., M. Inst. T., A.R.I.N.A., whose death was reported in the September edition of THE LIFE-BOAT, was also chairman of the Dublin branch of the R.N.L.I..

Sennen Cove's Mersey class The Four Boys catches the evening sunlight as she heads away from the the Cornish coast on exercise. - View image in PDF

Photo by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held on the 18th January, and was presided over by Mr. CHABLIS G. TURNER, C.B., Controller- General of Inland Revenue. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported a further...