LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mrs Ivy Ball, vice president of the Wellington branch. She was founder member of the branch which formed in 1938 and secretary from 1951 to 1975. She was awarded the silver badge in 1958..

Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 2.30 in the afternoon, on the 16th of April, 1950, the harbourmaster reported that the motor yacht St. Joseph, of Dro- gheda, with a crew of two, had broken down about two miles north of Port Oriel and was...

DINGHY TOWED TO HARBOUR Falmouth, Cornwall. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 30th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with one man on board appeared to be in difficulties off Shag Rock, St. Anthony Head....

Mr. Felix Rubie, M.I.N.A., who died on 25th February last, had passed the greater part of his life in the service of the Institution. Born in 1862, he was brought up at Cowes, and it was there that he learnt his sailing. He served his...

THE Life-Boat Saturday Fund workers have been much handicapped in their collecting by the serious and apparently increasing depression in trade which has of late so extensively prevailed and which is still with us. To make matters worse...

ONCE many life-boatmen considered it an unlucky gift to swim too well but since those days things have changed. For well over a year now the R.N.L.I, has been evaluating the use of swimmers from life-boats, as well as the kind of special...

RescUe OUT In A FLASH When three children were suddenly torn out of their depth by a rip current at a Devon beach, they were in danger of being thrown onto rocks – or worse Rip currents are the main surf hazard for beach goers – they can...

Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.

ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...