LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. C. A. Myers, of Lytham, and ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee.

THE Institution has lost two old and valued friends by the death of Mr.

Charles Arthur Myers, of Lytham, Lancashire, and ex-Lord...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was...

LIFE-BOAT CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS FOUR attractive and interesting life-boat Christmas cards are available this year.

A.—A card bearing an illustration reproduced from a painting by Stewart Henry Bell, hanging at Head...

— Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 2nd February a telephone message was received from the Coastguard at Sizewell, stating that a steamer was ashore on Sizewell Bank, and making signals for assistance. The No. 2 Lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...

CAPTAIN THE HON. SIR ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., D.S.O., died on the 16th of April, 1958, at the age of 73. He first joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1932 and after the second world war rejoined in 1946....

TOW FOR VESSEL WITH TWENTY PASSENGERS Barmouth, Merionethshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Welsh Girl, which had a crew of two and twenty...

(right) Lt Cdr Brian Miles inserts the final piece in the jigsaw - a symbolic completion of the seven-year plan to have fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF

Sir David A G Mackworth BT, cdr RN, Former deputy launching authority at Hayling Island lifeboat station . Sir David became DLA in 1974, a position he held until he was 73, In 1989 he became chairman of the station committee and was awarded...