LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT as the number involved would soon swamp the journal. We endeavour to report as many fundraising events as possible after they have taken...

Award* to Honorary Workers.

SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat was published, the following presenta- tions/have been made to Honorary, Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in recognition of their*...

SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which...

Birthday and New Year's Honours QBE Horace Kemball Greaves, secretary, Manchester Savings Committee. After the loss of the Mumbles lifeboat in 1947 Mr Greaves, then town treasurer of Swansea and honorary secretary of the Swansea branch,...

SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat Duncan was launched from this station at 6 A.M. on the 10th October last, and rescued 2 men from a perilous position on board the fishing smack Gleaner. A sudden storm had compelled a number of fishing...

Skilful boat handling and teamwork played a major role in this rescue but, for New Brighton Helmsman Mark Bland, decision making was the difficult part. Here's Mark's personal account While working at my office at Safe Water Training...

Since the June 1963 number of the Life-boat went to press the owners of the Johan Collett, the Norwegian motor vessel to whose assistance the St. Peter Port life-boat went on 5th February, have made a substantial donation to the...

February 25.—The ship Simoon, of Liverpool, during foggy weather, struck on a sunken rock in St. Bride's Bay. Six men went off to her assistance in a shore boat, and after some difficulty, from the thickness of the fog, they succeeded in...