LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FISHING BOAT TOWED IN New Brighton, Cheshire.—-At about 4.45 in the afternoon of January 13th, 1947, the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat had put out from Hoy- lake and had not returned. A boat, apparently in difficulties,...

BRISTOW HELICOPTERS have given to Aberdeen's 54' Arun BP Forties an AM VHP (air band) Pye Westminster radio, which allows direct communication between lifeboat and aircraft; the cheque for £350 was presented to Coxswain Albert...

During a visit to Derbyshire branches last September Rear Admiral W. J.

Graham, director of the Institution, was entertained to lunch by Buxton branch at the home of its chairman Mrs Helen Garrioch (fourth from left, front... - View image in PDF

PENZANCE.—On the 10th March while a whole gale was blowing from the E.

with snow and a heavy ground sea, the schooner Joseph Nicholson, of Newcastle, bound from Carnarvon for Norway with slate, dragged her anchors while...

Miss ALICE MARSHALL has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution, in recognition of her distinguished services as Honorary Secretary of the Oxford Branch.

To Mrs. WALTERS, in recognition of her valu- able...

Coxswain William Miller, of Eye- mouth, Berwickshire, who died on 13th February, at the age of sixty-eight, served as coxswain for twenty-six years. He was appointed coxswain in 1901, and retired in 1927, when he was awarded a certificate of...

Messrs. Victor Gollancz Ltd. are to be congratulated on producing under the title Wild Water an English edition of a Dutch book by Klaas Toxopeus, which has already had considerable success in the Netherlands (15s.).

Wild...

AMONG those associated with the life-boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours list were :— K.B.

MR. E. M. COOPER-KEY, M.P., a member of the Committee of Management.K.B.E. VICE-ADMIRAL W. K....