LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE deeply regret to have to record the death, during March, of two old and very valued friends of the Institution, Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., J.P., F.R.G.S., Deputy-] Master of the Trinity House, and...

Alpine Tour BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialists on this fabulous 15-day holiday through the Alps. A friendly and professional Tour Manager accompanies all departures so sit back, relax and enjoy the...

MAN RESCUED FROM YACHT AGROUND Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.4 on the morning of the 19th May, 1963, Walton coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Sunk pilot cutter had reported that a small craft a quarter of a mile south of...

WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...

Hastings, Sussex.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1951, the North Foreland radio station tele- phoned that the American steamer Sea Cloud, seven miles south of the harbour, had reported a man fallen down her hold. She asked for...

Cdr Peter Roe, operations room officer, checks a position on the chart while Julie Mannd (I.), assistant boat movements officer, receives a telephone message from a station honorary secretary and Margaret Pearce, operations room assistant,... - View image in PDF

DRIFTING ON TO THE NORE SANDS Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.35 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht was drifting on to the Nore Sands.

The motor life-boat Milburn, on tem-...

COXSWAIN WILLIAM STEWART DASS, of Longhope, in the Orkneys, died in January of this year. He had retired in 1946, at the age of sixty-eight, after serving for three years as second cox- swain and then over twelve years as...