LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BROADSTARS.—The reserve Life-boat temporarily placed at this station was launched at 9 P.M. on the 12th May, in a heavy rolling sea and a N.N.E. wind, and proceeded to the assistance of a vessel which had burnt flares off the North Foreland....

Coxswain George Cromarty, of Holy Island, who died on 14th January at the age of seventy-six, was second coxswain from 1897 to 1911, and coxswain from 1911 to 1932, so that for over thirty- four and a half years he served as an officer of...

Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...

PARAVANE TOWED Holy Island, Northumberland. On Tuesday, 9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified object had been seen one and a half miles north of Megstone and as the life-boat Gertrude was to...

IT is very pleasant to be able to publish the following letter, which gives good proof of the generous spirit which so often animates those who are ready to assist in saving life without any thought of fee or reward. The signatories are two...

Shortly after 4 p.m. on 12th September, 1967, Mr R. W. S. Gould, who is second coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat, was working in his cafe on the beach at Bembridge when his attention was called to a bather in difficulties some 200 yards...

ST. AGNES', ISLES OF SCILLY.—At 9 P.M., on the 21st March, signals were seen in St. Mary's Sound. In ten minutes the Life-boat James and Caroline was launched and proceeded to the spot, under sail, through a moderate sea, the wind...

DURING November and December, 1920, and January, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : — To ROBERT LEES, Esq...