LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain George Flett, who has been coxswain of the Aberdeen number one life-boat since 1949. For six years he was second coxswain of the boat.

In 1937, when second coxswain, he was awarded...

TWO MEN RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

At 10.17 on the morning of the 1st April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning flares and needed help. A...

On the 30th January the schooner John Pickard, of Goole, whilst bound to London with coal, sprang a leak when near the South Caistor Buoy. Her signals of distress were observed by the Coastguard, who reported them to the Coxswain of the Life...

GREEK AND DANISH STEAMERS IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—On the morning of the 28th of June, 1947, the steamer Heron, of Piraeus, was in collision with the Danish steamer Stal, of Copenhagen, and sank fourteen miles east-south...

Margate, Kent.—At 9.45 in the morn- ing of the 27th of February, 1949, the coastguard reported that a yacht, three miles to the north-eastwards, was drifting rapidly towards the shore. A strong west-north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea...

Prince Michael of Kent was one of several distinguished visitors to the RNLI's stand at the London Boat Show. He is pictured talking to Wells lifeboatmen 'Sonny' Warner (right) and James Case aboard the slation's new Mersey... - View image in PDF

WHAT is that sound that cracks the air, that rip in the quivering night ? What is that flash in the scurrying clouds, that shiver of living light ? What is that clatter of hurrying feet, and why do the women run Unkempt, bareheaded, and...

AUGUST 3RD. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. It was reported that a man had baled out from an aeroplane, but nothing was found, and it was thought that it must have been a target shot down which was mistaken for a man. - Rewards, £4...