LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

End of voyage A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC made a 999 call to the Police early on the morning of Saturday October 16, 1982, reporting a catamaran flashing a white light about 100 yards off Sidmouth Beach, 9Vz miles east north east of Exmouth...

• The early years of the Dungeness lifeboat station were ones of uncertainty.

The station opened in 1826, just two years after the RNLI was founded, and in the next 48 years was closed twice and moved up and down the coast...

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 26th day of April, 1855, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a repro- duction in colour of the picture on this page. It is a photograph of the 45' 6" Penlee life-boat W.

and S....

Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...

Lottery The 41st lottery draw took place on Saturday, April 30 in the Poole branch of Tesco's supermarket. This was the second time the event had been held in the store and was watched with great interest by local Saturday afternoon...

About 11.40 on the morning of the 31st July, 1962, an 11-foot dinghy capsized about a mile north-west of St.

Helens fort off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. There were three people aboard, a Mr. Gleave and his eleven-...

CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.

Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS. K.G.

Vice-Patrons— The Most Hon. the MARQUIS OF Ripon, K.O.

The Right Hon. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,...