LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dunbar, East Lothian.—During the morning of the 14th of June, 1955, it was reported that the local fishing boat Beautiful Star, which had a crew of two, was overdue. At 12.15 a message from Skateraw stated that she had been seen drifting and...

With deep regret we record the following deaths: MAY 1995 Sam Baxter MBE, honorary life president of Morecambe & Heysham financial branch.

Serving as honorary secretary of Morecambe lifeboat station from 1967 to 1978...

'Who said Braintree did not need a lifeboat?' writes 15- year-old A. Taylor who took this photograph at Braintree's fun day on May 15. The D class inflatable lifeboat, he said, was really only there for display! Despite a partly... - View image in PDF

Reigate and Redhill branch has suffered the loss of its president and both vice-presidents in less than a year: Cdr J. D. Walters, RN, was chairman during the 1939 to 1945 war and was subsequently president. George A. Hodgkins, a...

With deep regret we record the following deaths.

MARCH 1988: Mr Tom Brown, honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station from 1974 until his retirement in 1979.

MAY 1988: Mrs Dorothy Smith, first...

DOUBLE ACCIDENT TO YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At ten minutes past two on the morning of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the Needles coastguard that a motor yacht was lying at anchor two...

Cornish Appeal (from page 55) over to local branches at the end of the appeal. Careful instructions should be given about emptying boxes every three months in order to reduce loss by theft.

'A midnight matinee is well...

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At 3.26 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that the French yacht La Libertine, with five men and two girls aboard, had dragged her anchor and was driving ashore between...