LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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. . . if proof were necessary A wide range of Radio The fact that every life-boat in the Royal National Telephones, Loud Hailers, T • • i r • • n ...

— On the night of the 21st October the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Colhugh Point, and the motor life-boat Prince David was launched at 10.50 p.m. A moderate to strong S.S.W. breeze...

Admiral Sir John A. S. Eccles, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.B.E., died on ist March, 1966, at the age of 67. Sir John, who had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, later applied his vast experience in industry. During the time he was Admiral...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.16 on the morning of the 20th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the s.s. Roebuck that M.F. V. 160 of the Royal Army Service Corps was anchored six miles south- south-west of Casquets...

THE Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution records with regret the deaths of the following coxswains in the past year: Richard Henry Hayes of Poole.

Owen Jones of Porthdinllaen.

Isaac Jarvis of Hope...

Hartlepool, Durham. At five o'clock on the morning of the 27th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had been seen drifting about three miles east- south-east of Hartlepool. Nobody could be seen...

A Royal gala performance of the musi- cal version of The Admirable Crichton with Kenneth More and Millicent Martin will be held in aid of the In- stitution at a London West End theatre, on lyth December.

Seats will be...

CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIO N S This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.

Many other winches of...