LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. — 16th April. A yacht had grounded on the bar, but got off on the flood tide.— Rewards, £11 8s.

The findings of the Formal Investigation ordered by the Department of Trade into the loss on December 19, 1981, of the coaster Union Star with her eight people and of Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne with her crew of eight lifeboatmen. THE...

• Patrick Howarth, who retired as the RNLI's public relations officer in 1979, is far from retired from his career as an author. His latest book, George VI (Hutchinson, £12.50) recently published, is a meticulous biography of a shy,...

Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.

The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...

A MESSAGE was received at St. Mary's, Scillies, through the St. Ives coast- guard, shortly after half-past one in the afternoon of 28th November, that the schooner Mynonie R. Kirby, of London, bound for the South Seas, was drifting...

Nine from rocks AS REPORTED on page 15, the silver medal of the RNLI was awarded to Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat for the part he played in the rescue of nine men from the trawler Granton Osprey in hurricane force...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.

The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...

On the 19th December, the No. 2 Lifeboat put off and rescued the crew of 6 men from the brig Melita, of Blyth, which had stranded during a fresh N.W.

breeze and heavy sea. The Life-boat also brought ashore 10 beachmen who...