LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Throughout 1973 the motor yacht Cadabra toured the coasts of Great Britain on a sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd, a firm of stationers.

At the end of the tour in January, Captain Nigel Dixon, RN, Director of the...

Winner of the bronze medal for gallantry (See page 249). - View image in PDF

In recognition of his services as the designer of two of the Institution's standard types of life-boat Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A., has been form- ally appointed as the Institution's Naval Architect. The previous title of...

Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, C.B., F.R.S.A., a member of the Committee of Management, has been made a K.B.E. in the New Year Honours list.

Mr. W. R. Edwards, honorary secretary of the Ramsey, Isle of Man, life-boat...

Padstow, Cornwall. On 23rd November, 1965, the Padstow life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick rescued the crew of two of the fishing vessel Deo Gratias. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew,...

Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...

Fig 1 (above): The second prototype FSB is turned . . .. - View image in PDF

and rough seas. At the request of the Coastguard, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Atlantic 21 was launched with Helmsman Colin Staples in command.

However, when the lifeboat arrived on scene the man had succeeded in...