LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Kirkcudbright.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1957, a message was received from the police that two men had put out in a small dinghy to go duck-shooting on the morning of the day before and had not returned....

Swanage, Dorset - At 1.58 p.m. on 2Oth May, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in need of assistance off Poole Bar buoy. Later two other dinghies were reported in trouble. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.30 in a fresh south...

Five saved as coaster capsizes in Force 9 gale Coxswain John Catchpole of the Lowestoft lifeboat has been awarded a Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of five crew men from a coaster in Force 9 winds.

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On service 11 hours ON MONDAY, MAY 31, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station that a cabin cruiser had broken down in a position some three to four miles south east of the lifeboat station; she was drifting...

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Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored....

The Institution has also lost a very generous friend by the death of M.

Andre1 Citroen, founder and head of the great French motor-manufacturing firm which bears his name. M. Citroen will be remembered not only for his work...

CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...