LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TEN MEN RESCUED Dover and Dungeness, Kent. At 4.58 a.m. on 29th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch ship, Katherina Kolkmann was in collision with the British coaster Gannet five miles south of...

Present arms! Father Christmas is about to open his sack for the 100 children who were at Penrith ladies' lifeboat guild's annual Christmas party. There were games, a home made tea provided by the committee and then Willane, the... - View image in PDF

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the 6th of February, 1957, the motor fishing vessel Vine, of Aberdeen, while return- ing from the fishing grounds to Camp- beltown harbour with a crew of three, struck a reef on the north end of Davaar Island. An...

Lt Col Gerald Ross, deputy organising secretary of Ireland from 1952 until his retirement in 1967. He joined the Institution after many years service with the Royal Marines..

A CHRISTMAS FAIR was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, lent by the City Council, on 24th November.

The fair was opened by the Countess of Warwick. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided, supported...

Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— In the afternoon of the 2nd of March, 1949, three naval vessels were exer- cising off Berwick when one of them, H.M.S. Diver, a tug with a crew of ten, grounded on Standstill Point. Her engine had broken...

Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...

At 8 A.M.

on the 12th February the Coastguard reported a barge at anchor near the South East Buxey Sand, with her fore- mast and head gear carried away, but there was no signal indicating that help was required. The barge...