LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thanks of the Institution on Vellum The Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to the following honorary secretaries of life-boat stations on their retirement: MR. G. N. CRAIGHEAD, M.B.E., of Peter- head. (Also...

Tug escorted YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Wells lifeboat station at 1245 on Monday April 11, 1983, that Dockman, a 70ft ex-river tug which had been on passage from London to Newcastle but whose radar and compass...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — llth February. A man fell off a breakwater, and was picked up by the life-boat, but although artificial respiration was applied at once, he could not be revived.

—Rewards, £8...

Walmer, Kent.—27th March, 1938.

A canoe with two men on board had capsized, but one man had got ashore, while the other was drowned before help could reach him.—Rewards, £14 12s. 6d..

A MAN in a small boat who got into difficulties in a heavy ground sea was rescued by a life-boat. Sending his thanks to the' crew he wrote: "I expected to be told off for causing so much trouble. Instead I was treated with the...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—13th September, 1939. A steamer had been reported ashore, but when the life-boat arrived she found that she had refloated without help and was able to go on her way .—Rewards, £11 5s..

IN 1892 a man in Chatham began to subscribe to the Institution. He con- tinued to subscribe until his death fifty- three years later, in 1945. Since then his widow has continued the subscrip- tion in his name..

Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, C.B., F.R.S.A., a member of the Committee of Management, has been made a K.B.E. in the New Year Honours list.

Mr. W. R. Edwards, honorary secretary of the Ramsey, Isle of Man, life-boat...