LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitstable, Kent. At 11.32 a.m. on 6th November, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile to a mile off shore, and that after the two people aboard her had managed to right...

DURING the past year the difficulties— at all times serious—encountered by those endeavouring by personal effort to raise money for, and increase public interest in, deserving charities and in- stitutions have been in evidence in a greater...

NEWBIGGIN.— The fishing-boats proceeded to the fishing-grounds as usual, on the 27th January, and on their return were overtaken by a severe gale which suddenly sprung up from the N., accompanied by heavy showers of snow and a very rough sea...

The ! Life-boat William Hopkinson of Brig- ' house, from this station, during a heavy gale off shore, proceeded to the ketch Perseverance, of Sunderland, on the 28th September, in answer to signals of dis- tress displayed by...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.53 on the morning of the 23rd of June, 1957, the east pier watchman telephoned that the motor boat New Britannic appeared to be disabled in Pegwell Bay. At 12.1 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight...

On the 3rd April when the fishing fleet were return- ing from fishing a nasty cross sea was running at the harbour entrance, caused by a strong easterly breeze which had been blowing, and the broken sea on the bar together with the ebb tide...

From a print in the possession of Mr. J. E. Hooper. Hon. Secretary of the Natural History Museum and Antiquarian Society of Penzance. The race was in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, between the Life-boats stationed at St. Ives,...

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1963 has been won by Mechanic Joseph Houlihan of Valentia for the rescue single-handed of two men on 2nd September. A full account of the service...