LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI lottery 'You need hands' was the watchword on the day Max Bygraves drew the winning tickets for the 34th national lottery on July 31, 1986. Mr Bygraves, who was appearing in a summer show at the Poole Arts Centre, kept the...

At 2 P.M. on 5th May the Coxswain received a telephone message from Wexford to the effect that a small steamer was on Wexford Bar in a very dangerous position, and the Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. was at once launched to her help. A whole E.N.E....

FLOATS MISTAKEN FOR MEN Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford.—At 9.40 in the morning of the 21st of October, 1947, information was received that what appeared to be a partly sub- merged boat with three men clinging to it had been seen in...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 4.56 in the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1949, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that a motor yacht was in danger in Brodick Bay, Arran, She had run short of petrol and lost her dinghy. The life-boat City...

BIyth, Northumberland; Dunbar,'Haddingtonshire ; Buckie, Banffshire ; Lerwick, Shetland.—27th-31st January. The Russian steamer Irtysch, while bound from West Hartlepool to Leningrad had run into a severe gale and been driven north. She...

Peel, Isle of Man.—At 6.40 P.M. on the 17th December, 1938, flares were seen four miles W.N.W. of Peel. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and visibility was very poor.

The motor life-boat Helen Sutton was...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.43 p.m. on nth July, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that a motor boat was burning flares in Pegwell Bay and at 4.50 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea.

There was a strong...

Admiral Sir John A. S. Eccles, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.B.E., died on ist March, 1966, at the age of 67. Sir John, who had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, later applied his vast experience in industry. During the time he was Admiral...