LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.43 on the night of the 4th of February, 1957,/the Walney coastguard telephoned that the trawler Dean Swift had wirelessed that the steam trawler Alcmaria, of Lowestoft, with a crew of ten, needed help seven miles...

COXSWAIN JOHN GILL, of Galway Bay, who served as bowman from 1932 to 1933, second coxswain from 1933 to 1938 and coxswain from 1938 to 1943, was awarded the bronze medal in 1938 for the rescue of eleven men when the steam trawler Nogi went...

St. Ives, Cornwall. At two o'clock on the morning of the 20th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a trawler was in distress forty miles north-north-west of St. Ives Head. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and...

Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 7.12 on the morning of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Dover that two vessels had been in collision near the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.31 the coastguard reported...

Holyhead, and Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary at Holyhead that the no. 2 pilot boat, which had gone to the Skerries Rock with fifteen children...

Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a badly injured man on Tearsaght Rock needed a doctor, and the help of the life-boat was requested. The man had cut his...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. About eight o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the second coxswain received a request, while he was fishing to the north of Hartlepool, from a representative of Messrs. Wimpey and Co. to land men...

It is with deep regret that we have to record the death on February 14 of Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, KBE CB.

After a distinguished naval career embracing active service in two world wars and ending with the...