LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Knighthood for RNLI Chairman The RNLFs chairman became Sir Michael Vernon when he was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's New Year Honours list in recognition of his services to the Institution.

Sir Michael joined the...

Mr. J. W. Kelly, of Peel, in the Isle of Man, has now sung the solo in the hymn "The Life-boat" at the annual Life-boat Sunday Service at Peel every year for 45 years. Mr. Brian Leadley, who ha* been H.M. coastguard at Peel for 23...

AFTER A COLLISION At 6.40 p.m. on 28th November, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the motor vessel Royal Gate had been in collision one mile west of Chequer buoy and was making for the beach in a moderate...

MR. J. K. BENNETTS, the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station, and seven other men, have been awarded certificates of commen- dation of the Royal Humane Society.

They helped to rescue five men of the crew...

WINTERTON.—On the morning of the 25th December signals of distress were observed from a schooner ashore about 3 miles north of Winterton. The Ann Maria Life-boat was thereupon launched, and rescued the crew, 6 in number, from the vessel,...

Boulmer, Northumberland.—At about 10.55 P.M. on the 13th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that the steamer Montrose, of Stockholm, had reported having been in collision with a trawler five miles W.S.W. of Coquet...

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At noon on the 12th January intelligence was received that a vessel had hoisted signals of distress in Derbyhaven Bay. The Life-boat Thomas Black was taken on her carriage to Darbyhaven, where she was launched and...