LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two new one act plays on the subject of the Life-boat Service have recently been written. Both are available to branches for local performances, and in each case the author is willing to forgo any royalties when branches produce the play in...

Four coxswains whose outstanding acts of gallantry were recognised by the award of medals died during the past year. Among them was the holder of an exceptional number of medals, COXSWAIN CHARLES AMBROSE (JOE) JOHNSON, who joined the crew of...

Kirkcudbright. At three o'clock on the morning of the 4th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman had telephoned expressing alarm at the continued absence of her husband, who had left the previous...

DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL ESCORTED IN GALE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 15th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Frida Blokzijl of Vlaardingen, Netherlands, was drifting with her...

LIFE-BOAT FINDS YACHT'S TENDER Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.30 on the morning of the 6th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he could see a boat drifting about three miles off Walton, but that there...

Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.35 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing barge was aground at the mouth of Holehaven Creek. At 6.45 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service...

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...

SECOND MECHANIC of the Howth life-boat, George McConkey, who has never received any tuition as an artist, has painted a remarkable picture in oils of the rescue, in which he took part and for which he was subsequently awarded a medal service...