LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

It is with deep regret that we record the death in February of Major-General R H Farrant. CB, chairman of the Institution from 1975 until his retirement in 1979.

Major-General Farrant joined the Committee of Management of...

Long service Early last year members of Bognor Rotary Club presented an inscribed chair for Selsey lifeboat station's crew room. It was in memory of the late Mr R. D. Bray, a Rotarian who had been associated with Bognor Regis RNLI branch...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.20 on the even- ing of the 16th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned a report from the North Foreland Golf Club that a cabin-cruiser had fired a red Verey light half a mile off North...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—-At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1948, the dock police- reported a yacht in difficulties off Castle Head. A southerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and she was in danger of being...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress and in danger of •drifting ashore three-quarters of a mile west-south-west of Seaford and a half- mile off...

PROPELLER LOST At 9.23 p.m. on 2yth June, 1965, the honorary secretary heard from the coastguard that a coble four miles north-east of Whitby was waving a flag. The lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9.30. There was a gentle westerly...

THE committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution began to give serious consideration to the use of helicopters for rescuing life at sea in 1948, when trials and demon- strations were carried out. Consider- able...

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