LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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.

At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd July, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch trawler Pollux had a mine on board. She was making for the Tyne and a R.N. bomb and mine disposal party were on their way from Rosyth.

Tenby, Pembrokeshire - On 2yth August, 1966, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown rescued six people who had been trapped by the tide. An account of this service will appear in the March, 1967, number of THE LIFE-BOAT..

At 5.17 a.m. on loth October, 1966, three red flares were sighted off Port Ellen light. The life-boat Francis W.

Wotherspoon of Paisley left her moorings at 5.37 in a strong south easterly wind and a rough sea. It was four...

Life-boat 70-001, Bristol Channel - At 8.40 p.m. on I2th October, 1966, the staff-coxswain of the 70-foot life-boat was told that there was a sick man on the South Lundy lighthouse and asked if he could take a doctor to Lundy island. It was...

WHEN an explosion wrecked their fishing boat off the South Devon coast on I5th June, 1967, one of the two men lost was Mr. Francois L. Janssens, of Brixham, who was a regular crew member of the Torbay life-boat. His father, Mr. Albert...