LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN April, 1926, the Institution awarded its gold badge, given only for dis- tinguished honorary services, to Miss Hannah Denham. She had then been for many years a bed-ridden cripple in the incurable ward at the Westminster Hospital. She was...

MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.

He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...

JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.

A gale was blowing from the...

PORTHDINLLAEN.—While a strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., with heavy squalls of snow and a heavy sea, on the llth Jan. 1892, the schooner Rose, of Car- narvon, dragged her anchors while lying in Porthdinllaen Bay and went...

• The 1981 edition of Reed's Nautical Almanac (Thomas Reed Publications, £7.95) marks the golden jubilee of this popular publication. There cannot be many lifeboats which do not have a copy of Reed's on the chart table and the...

Rescue from the Rocks RED FLARES sighted in a position one and a half miles south east of St Helier, Jersey, were reported to the deputy launching authority of the St Helier Station by a member of the public at8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, September...

Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the morn- ing of the 23rd December, 1886, signals of distress were observed about a mile distant from Winterton, during a strong N. gale aad a very heavy sea, shown by two vessels which had been in collision. The Win-...