LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. Ken Adams, of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, has been awarded a certifi- cate by the R.N.L.I. as the writer of what was, in the Institution's opinion, the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat published in 1968. His...

Redcar, Yorkshire. At approximately 9.10 p.m. on i4th June, 1965, the owner of the speedboat Miranda informed the coxswain-mechanic that his boat with two people on board had broken down half a mile north-east of the station and was drifting...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 7 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, the honorary secretary was asked by a local doctor if the life-boat could be used to convey an injured patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other suitable boat was...

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE On the 23rd February, 1946, the Whitby life-boat rescued a member of the crew of the fishing boat Easter Morn, who was washed overboard.

LIFE-BOATMAN JOHN ROBERT HARLAND was awarded the silver...

SEPTEMBER 9TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Two boys in a canoe had capsized, but they reached the shore unaided.

- Rewards, £7 1s..

BLAKENEY, NORFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently stationed a life-boat at Blakeney, at the north extremity of Norfolk, at which place a crew of fishermen perished last year in attempting to rescue a shipwrecked crew. This...

By the death on 21st August, at the age of eighty-three, of Alderman A. H.

Drinkwater, three times Mayor of Coventry, an honorary freeman of the city, and a man who devoted himself whole-heartedly to public and philan-...

JUST A YEAR AGO—that was when the appeal to raise the cost of a Rother class lifeboat to be named Shoreline was first launched. And what has happened in those twelve months? Well, for a start, membership has risen by neatly a third, from...