LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the morning of the 28th February it was reported that a small vessel was dragging her anchors. She was the ketch Roger Aubert, of Paimpol, bound with a cargo of coal, and a crew of five, from Swansea to St. Brieuc...

Hastings, Sussex. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a small sailing dinghy had capsized off St. Leonards about a quarter of a mile from the shore. At 5.18 the life-boat M.T.C....

GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—A new life-boat has been stationed at Groomsport, County Down, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a branch of the Society established there. Lying at the entrance to the bay of Belfast, this station will afford a...

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THE subject for the ninth Life-boat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools, held this year, was, " What are the qualities which make the Lifeboatman an example of good citizenship ? " So far as the quality of the essays was...

It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: June Mr J. A. Clugston, who joined Port St Mary branch in 1958 and became chairman in 1966, retiring from this office due to ill health in 1970, when he became a...

AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL last May the gold medal for outstanding gallantry was presented to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the silver medal to Coxswain/Mechanic Alexander ' Alastair' Gilchrist of...

Two private individuals who put out in a boat from a Cornish village after some people had been washed over the harbour wall have both been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum. They are Mr. Terence Sawyer and Mr. Frank...