LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a...

Mudeford, Hampshire. At 12.15 p.m. on loth July, 1964, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew saw a speedboat capsize half a mile off shore from the harbour entrance. The inshore rescue boat immediately launched in a fresh north-westerly...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—About 4.15 in the morning on the 8th of November, 1950, the S.S. Allurity, of London, a tanker of 813 tons, wirelessed that she had a fire in her engine-room. Shortly after 7.0 the Foreland coastguard reported that...

MR. C. S. CLAYTON of the firm of Messrs.

Clayton, Leach, Sims & Co., died on the 19th of April, 1951, three and a half months after he had retired from it.

He had then been a partner in the firm for...

MAN TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th August, 1962, the Wicklow honorary secretary asked if the Arklow life-boat would land a member of the crew of the Codling lightvessel as the man's father...

SIX PEOPLE THROWN INTO SEA Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.57 on the morning of Tuesday the 27th of August, 1963, the Bembridge coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized and that another sailing dinghy...

WATERLOGGED PINNACE At 7.14 p.m. on ifth October, 1963, the coastguard told the coxswain that red flares had been seen off Dimlington. The life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 7.25 in a moderate southerly breeze and moderate sea....

The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, The Mumbles; Coxswain William Jones, Holyhead; Coxswain Griffiths Jones, Porthdinllaen; Coxswain Arthur Liddon, Dover; Second Coxswain Peter Gibbons, Lowestoft; Former Second Coxswain... - View image in PDF