LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

July 1998 Peter Squires, chairman of Christchurch branch. He was founder member of the branch in 1975 and during the past 23 years has held most offices within it. He retired in May 1997 due to ill health but still remained a member and gave...

AUGUST 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At noon information was received from a resident of Millisle and the coastguard, that a small yacht, with two boys aboard. had broken from her moorings and was two miles off Ballywhiskin, drifting swiftly...

Early on the morning of the 5th December fishermen about the harbour saw red flares a few miles due east.

An E.N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The weather was very cold, with heavy blasts of rain. With some...

At 2.30 A.M. on the 12th April the Coast- guard at Shoeburyness reported that the Nore Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 were assembled and the boat proceeded to the Light-vessel,...

OCTOBER 6TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.

The Greek steamer Mount Taygetus had been reported in distress, but she was only awaiting permission to go into Milford Haven. Later the life-boat was asked to take a message to her, but...

Mr. H. C. WHITEHEAD, has been appointed an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered as Honorary Secretary of the Appledore Life-boat Station for 28 years; and has been presented with a...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.5 oil the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the Wallasey Ya;ht Club that two yachts had capsized half a mile north-west of Rock Light. Ten minutes later the...

Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...