LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A competition, open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen, for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held this year. The competition had been held regularly before the war, but it had not been...

Shifting sands: who needs oil when you can make £400 selling sand? These arabs, more usually members of Port Talbot Rotoract Club, were undeterred when they could not obtain a licence to collect in the street for The Mumbles lifeboat... - View image in PDF

Wells, and Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.48 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic of the Wells life- boat that an aircraft had crashed into the sea off South Race Bank buoy. At eleven...

Hastings, Sussex. — At 6.32 in the evening of the 31st of July, 1949, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned infor- mation received from St. Leonards that a dinghy was drifting between the St.

Leonards Pier and Bo Peep, and at...

Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 9.10 p.m.

on 24th April, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Random Harvest had received a radio telephone message that the trawler Lemberg of Grimsby...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 30th of January, 1948, the crew of three of the motor barge Arripay, of London, abandoned her in a rowing boat, during a south-westerly gale near the Swin Bell Buoy, with three feet of water in her engine-room....

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THE Institution has awarded an in- scribafl Aneroid Barometer to Mr.

Lionel Hunt, of Barry Dock, Glamor- ganshire, for his gallantry in rescu- ing two men from drowning. Mr.

Lionel Hunt is a Barry Channel...