LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

James Jane, coxswain of Cadgwith lifeboat from 1957 to 1963. He joined the crew in 1921 and served as second coxswain from 1946 to 1956..

Dick Burke, chairman of Gloucester branch from 1982 to 1987 and memberof the committee until his death. He was awarded a Statuette in 1989..

Francis Verrill, coxswain of Staithes & Runswick lifeboat from 1952 to 1966. Hejoined the crew in 1947 serving as bowman until 1952 when he became second coxswain, being appointed coxswain later that same year..

Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.40 on the night of the llth of February, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals between Bognor and Littlehampton, and the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 11 o'clock.

A...

Dnngeness, Kent. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 2nd of October, 1949, a resident of Lydd telephoned that a vessel was ashore one mile west-north- west of Galloways. At eight o'clock the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in...

Plymouth, South Devon - At 5.10 p.m. on 25th February, 1970, a report was received from the coastguard that a dinghy was drifting seaward four miles south of Downderry.

The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped...

LEAKING MOTOR BOAT At 4.17 p.m. on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a white motor boat off South Stack was in trouble.

There was a slight sea with a gentle southwesterly breeze. The tide had been...

JAN. 17TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.

At 3.50 P.M. the St. Ann’s Head coastguard reported that a French schooner was in distress two miles south of the Head.

She was the Eglantine, of Treguier, bound laden...