LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Anstruther station has lost not only one of its honorary secretaries, but, by the death of ex-Coxswain William Sutherland on 31st October, one of the oldest of its life-boatmen.

He joined the crew in 1894 and was...

IN the New Year's Honours list, Mr.

Charles H. Barrett, who ha's been the honorary secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund since 1938, and Mr.

William Francis Thomas Powell, who has been...

As in the past four years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...

TWO YACHTS TOWED IN Margate, Kent.—About 8.0 in the evening of the 4th of April, 1947, the motor yacht Brevet with seven on board, broke away from her moorings alongside the pier with a rope round her propeller and began to drift. A strong...

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1953, it was reported that the yacht Rongorge, which had anchored off Gallows Point with a crew of four, was dragging, and at 8.45 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...

MR. CHARLES E. FIELDING deputy chairman of the Manchester and District branch, who had been an honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for 55 years and an honorary life governor of the Institution, died in the Isle of Man in October...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 6.3 p.m. on 12th June, 1968, while the life-boat was on exercise, the coastguard informed the crew that a sailing dinghy with three people on board had capsized in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis went to...

Ex-Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, a gold medal holder, died on 28th January, 1969, at the age of 81. His first recorded service with the life-boats was in 1914, and in 1942 he won the gold medal for rescuing 39 men under...