LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...

Himley Hall SC, a small family sailing club with its waters in beautiful Himley Park, West Midlands, held a 24-hour sponsored race over a May weekend in both 1976 and 1977. Twelve teams took part in the first year and ten the second, with...

APRIL 26TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 3.30 in the afternoon a doctor telephoned that on the previous afternoon a man on Papa Stour had fallen down the cliffs and fractured a thigh. It was urgent that the man should be brought to Lerwick Hospital...

Five bronze medals for gallantry have been won in Wales in the past three months.

Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., the organist of St. David's Cathedral, who has been the honorary secretary of St. David's life-boat...

JANUARY 9TH . - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

At 11 P.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer that a Greek steamer was sinking north of Unst, and that the life-boat should go to Balta Sound and await further...

THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION GAME ** JW All ten classic playing tokens are crafted in pewter and plated with 22 carat gold. Duaiu aiiuwii much smaller than actual size of 20VL x 20V W x 3"H.

The exclusive edition - fit...

IN The Lifeboat for June, 1923, a list was published of launches of Life-boats and assemblies of Crews during the first four months of that year, with the names of the vessels in question and of their owners, and the amount of the...

The life-boat calendar for 1943 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting of Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of Margate, who won the D.S.M. for helping to bring off over 600 men of the B.E.F. from the...