LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Salcombe, Devon.-—The motor lifeboat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 9.45 P.M. on the 8th August in response to flares reported by Bolt Head coastguard four miles west of Bolt. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth....

New Brighton, Cheshire.—During the evening of the llth November the owner of the local motor fishing boat lone reported that his boat had gone out early in the morning in company with several other boats, but had not returned with them. She...

H.R.H. THE PRINCESS LOUISE, Duchess of Argyll, who died on 3rd December, 1939, at the age of ninety-one, had for many years been personally associated with the work of the Institution. She became president of its Kensington branch in 1914....

Fowey, Cornwall. —• About eleven o'clock in the morning of the 8th of June, 1952, a message was received that a motor boat had reached Fowey and the owner had reported that his friend was missing in the 18-feet motor boat E.M. He had...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1957, the watchman on the east pier tele- phoned that a motor yacht off Main Sands between Ramsgate and Broad- stairs was burning flares. Ten minutes later the life-boat Michael...

CHILD AMONG FOUR RESCUED FROM YACHT Hoylake, Cheshire. Around 11.20 on the morning of the 30th July, 1962, a number of reports were received stating that a yacht had sunk off Sandhey slipway and that her crew were in the...

YACHT AGROUND At 12.8 p.m. on i3th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was reported aground in heavy seas on the West Barrow sands. No distress signals were seen but, because of a strong south-westerly...

Now available LIFEBOAT VC The Story of Coxswain Dick Evans and His Many Rescues Ian Skidmore £4.95 He has received a standing ovation at the Guildhall in London, and appeared on 'This is Your Life'. He is not a film star but a...