LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Appledore, North Devon. At 11.30 a.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the auxiliary yacht Sea Jack, which had a crew of three, had lost all her canvas and had engine trouble. She was being towed by another yacht...

The Runs- wick cobles were at sea fishing on the night of the 28th June when they were overtaken by a gale from N.N.E. which suddenly sprang up. Fortunately some of the boats were in the shelter of the bay and their crews immediately hurried...

The unexpected can often make an exercise more real than anyone intended. This is how Ramsgate lifeboatmen passed an extra test of skill with flying colours. Photographs are by courtesy of Jim Byrne, the story is told by Georgette...

Shortly after midnight on the 1st December the crew of the Lifa-boat Foster Fawcett were assembled in answer to signals from a vessel to the south of the Point. The boat was promptly launched and found the steam trawler Lothian, of Granton,...

Margate, Kent.—At 6.33 on the morn- ing of the 4th of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that he had seen a sailing yacht in a dangerous position on Hook Sands. At 7.5 the life-boat North Foreland Civil Service ATo. 11 was...

The Life-boat Caroline Richardson was launched at 12.8 P.M. on the 14th September in response to a message from Prestatyn stating that a bathing-van attendant was drifting out to sea in an open boat, without oars, towards Rhyl. Immedi- ately...

from page 87 Miss F. M. Coleman Honorary secretary of Shipston-on- Stour branch since 1940; awarded record of thanks in 1948 and silver badge in 1963.

Mrs A. L. Kenyon President of Bramhall and Woodford ladies' guild...

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