LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walmer, Kent. At 3.18 on the after- noon of the 20th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that he had seen from the cliff-top at St. Margaret's two canoeists capsize about a mile off shore in choppy...

Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 21st August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off Howick Seahouses farm.

At 3.58 on the ebbing tide the...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 5.33 on the evening of the 19th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaiy that red flares had been seen north of the coastguard look-out. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...

FISHING VESSEL AGROUND ON ROCKS Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.42 on the morning of the 29th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Marie McClements of Portavogie was aground near the South Rock. The...

When the honorary secretary of the Pinner branch, Mrs. Carver, visited the Pinnerwood Primary School to empty the collecting box she was greeted withlife-boat song composed by Susan Tublin aged ten, who had trained the choir composed of...

CARGO VESSEL ON FIRE BELOW DECKS Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 5.30 on the morning of Wednesday the llth September, 1963, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary advis- ing that the 700-ton cargo vessel Loch Dunvegan, loaded...

3rd July. An aeroplane of Cobham's Air Routes, Ltd., crashed off the Needles.

A steamer picked up the only passenger, but the pilot was killed. Sir Alan Cobham wrote expressing appreciation of the effort made by the...

'horsing' the boat, she continued for a time to be launched with the aid of a locally-based regiment. Before being taken out of commission in 9 6John and Henrietta had been launched 61 times and rescued 27 lives. The boat was...