LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hastings, Sussex. —• At 6.20 in the morning of the 13th of November, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning flares about two miles off Winchelsea, and later the Winchelsea coast watcher reported that the boat was...

TOWED OFF SHORE At 2.45 a.m. on 3oth May, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that an unknown vessel was ashore on the east side of Thurso river. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 3.15. There was a moderate...

MR. HECTOR HUGHES, Labour M.P. for Aberdeen North, raised the question of recent bogus distress signals fired at sea off the Scottish coast in the House of Commons in January.

Emphasizing that Scottish life-boat men had put...

HAD WOUNDED HAND At 2.42 p.m. on 26th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Caroline, a wireless transmitting station 3J miles off Ramsey, had a deep wound on his right hand and needed...

Life-boat 70-002 on passage - At 10.50 a.m. on 7th November, 1968, while the Grace Paterson Ritchie life-boat was on passage to Westray, the coastguard told the coxswain that the doctor on Rousay had requested the assistance of the lifeboat...

Mr. J. G. Groves, former Inspector of Machinery at the R.N.L.I., has been appointed Surveyor of Machinery on the retirement of Capt. D. A. Cotman, R.N..

The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours- C.B.E.

Aid. J. T. Fletcher, of Aislaby, Yorkshire (chairman of the Redcar branch).

O.B.E.

Lady Traherne,...

The immaculate appearance of lifeboats is no accident, and reflects the pride of a lifeboat station in its boat.

However that glossy finish on the hull has to be put there in the first place, and this is another instance of... - View image in PDF