LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Hon. Mrs. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, wife of the deputy chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution, laid the foundation stone of the boathouse at the new life-boat station being built at Kilcobben Cove in Cornwall on the 23rd...

AT the end of last year we began building the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat.

She will be by far the largest and most powerful Motor Life-boat in the Instituincreased tion's Fleet, and will, in fact, be the...

5 January: Dunbar When ambulance crews couldn't reach a woman who had slipped on rocks and badly injured her ankle as she walked to the south of Pease Bay, the inshore lifeboat crew were her only hope....

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea off Leasowe lighthouse with one man on board. At 5.35 the life-boat Edward and Mary...

At 10.30 A.M. on the 14th November, the brigantine Emily Raymond, of St. John's, N.B., then aground on the North Bar, Wexford Harbour, exhibited signals of distress. A gale was blowing from the N.W. at the time, with a very bad sea on....

GORLESTON.—On the afternoon of the 15th April, the smack White Rose, of Yarmouth, whilst endeavouring to enter Tarmouth Harbour, inconsequence of a heavy ground swell, and a considerable sea on the bar, ran aground on it. A yawl which went...

Second Coxswain Stephen Whittle and Assistant Mechanic John Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, share the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1964. The award is an annual one made under the...

H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, named two new life-boats in 1954. These life- boats, The Duchess of Kent and Edian Courtauld, are now on service at Fraserburgh and at Walton and Frinton.

Ten new...