LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

You would have to have exceptional hearing to claim that New Maiden in South London was within the sound of Bow Bells, but this did not deter Alice Hodgkin (r), catering manager of Spillers Foods, New Maiden from organising a Cockney evening... - View image in PDF

Barra Island, Hebrides. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 11 th of September.

1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that two small fishing boats, which had left Castlebay at four o'clock in the afternoon, had...

COLONEL CLEMENT RICHARD SATTERTHWAITE retired from the secretaryship of the Institution at the end of last year. He had then been in its service for twenty-two years, nearly seven as deputy-secretary and over fifteen as...

SEPTEMBER 21ST. APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed eight miles north of Hartland Point, and at four in the afternoon the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched. A squally N.W. by W. wind was blowing, with a...

SOUTHERN DISTRICT Torbay, Devon - At 3.35 p.m. on ist April, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Paignton. The IRB was launched at 3.47 in a moderate to fresh south by westerly wind and a slight sea. It was low water....

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 8.39 on the evening of the 24th of July, 1953, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that two people were stranded on Puffin Island and were waving for help.

As the weather was too bad for a...

•X- Support the RNLI in Maritime Year Jammer Super Thermal Wear the sale of which will benefit the RNLI Jammer Super Jacket Specifically designed for water sportsmen. Three materials 'fused'. So, you're warm, weatherproof and...