LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of April, 1950, the county police reported a message received from a returning fishing boat, that flares had been seen in Lune Deep about four miles west of Wyre Light.

In five years and three months of war our life-boats have rescued 5,895 lives from ships and aeroplanes. That is an average of 21 lives every week, or three lives rescued for every one during the 20 years of peace between the two...

A NEW division of the St. John Ambu- lance Brigade has been formed at Brixham, where it will work in conjunc- tion with the Torbay life-boat, turning out whenever the life-boat receives a call, and standing by to give first aid to any among...

Men and women around the coast give up their time to train for and carry out lifeboat launches A Silver Medal-winning rescue by Cteethorpes and Number was featured in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat. As with many, the Cleethorpes crew...

RETIRED DOCTOR COMMENTS ON PRIVATE HEALTH : After retiring many people find that private health insurance discounts are no longer available to them.

Worse still, there is an enormous age-related loading in subscription...

By L. H. Shelvey, Honorary Secretary of the Walmer Station AT ten past three on the afternoon of Friday the 2nd of January, the coastguard telephoned to me that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Goodwin Sands, one and a half miles...

Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.

An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but...

MR. JOHN TERRY, the district organ- ising secretary for London, has been appointed chief organising secretary of the Institution and personal assis- tant to the secretary, a new post which replaces the post of...