LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Miss ALICE MARSHALL has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution, in recognition of her distinguished services as Honorary Secretary of the Oxford Branch.

To Mrs. WALTERS, in recognition of her valu- able...

MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.30 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported that an S.O.S. was being flashed one mile N. by W. from the Haisborough coastguard lookout, and the Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was...

TROUBLE ON THE BAR THE ability to be able to anticipate a dangerous situation is useful at sea and this was demonstrated at Cardigan on 13th August, 1972, when the local ILB was called out before she was actually needed.

At...

AT the annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, on the 12th ultimo, presided over by Mr. C. G. TURNER, Controller-General of la- land Revenue, it was reported by Mr.

CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon....

FATHER AND SON At 5.25 p.m. on 5th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boy was reported to be stranded on Renney rocks but that further investigation was necessary. At 5.36 the message was confirmed. It was one hour...

Margate, Kent.—At 11.6 on the morn- ing of the 19th of April, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down in Kingsgate Bay, but had made no distress signals.

Watch was kept on her, and at 11.53...

On the evening of the 6th Sep- tember the weather was calm, but there was a heavy swell on the bar, and the yacht Brunette, of New- castle-on-Tyne, with four young people on board, three brothers and their sister, was seen to be drifting...

£83 from a Population of 558.A LIFE-BOAT worker who lives in the village of Shuttleworth, near Ramsbottom, in Lancashire, held a Life-boat Bazaar on 8th May. Her party consisted of herself, her two daughters and five working girls. The...