LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the morning of the 2nd April it was reported that two young men, who had set out on the previous afternoon to explore the cliffs and caves at Studland, had not been seen since. Passenger steamers plying between Swanage and Bourne- mouth...

HOW A TRIMARAN WAS SAVED At 3.14 on the afternoon of the 21st July, 1962; the Lowestoft, Suffolk, lifeboat was launched to the help of a trimaran. An eye-witness account of this service appears on page 349..

"Some years ago, when a life-boat was about to be launched in the teeth of a gale, someone said to the coxswain: 'You can't go out in a sea like that—you'll never come back.' The coxswain replied, 'We have to go...

On the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, a man marooned on a cliff was rescued by the North Sunderland, Northumberland, life-boat. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 324, Coxswain Thomas Daw- son, was awarded the...

On the 20th of September, 1954, the Exmouth life-boat rescued the crew of five of the cabin cruiser Nicky which was in distress on Maer Rocks. For a full account of this service see page 764..

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1955, a man who had just come in from sea in his fishing boat told the life-boat coxswain that he had seen a yacht aground near the West Gunfleet buoy, but that he had been...

The annual general meeting of the Institution will be held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 p.m. on 6th April, 1965.

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, who is President of the Institution, will present medals and other...

Among those associated with the life-boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the Birthday Honours list were: G.B.E. Alderman Sir James Miller, Lord Mayor of the City of London, ex officio member of the Committee of Management.