LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MEDICAL AID At 9.48 a.m. on 26th January, 1966, the local ferryman informed the honorary secretary that the resident doctor on the island of Jura requested assistance in conveying a sick patient from the Feolin Pier to Port...

JUNE 6TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Smoke which appeared to come from a burning boat had been reported, but nothing could be found. The honorary secretary, Captain C. T. Keigwin, R.N.R., also put out in a speed-boat and took part in the...

FEBRUARY 10TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

Two aeroplanes, a bomber and a fighter, had collided, and some airmen who had baled out came down on land, but no one was found in the sea. - Rewards, £10 19s..

JUNE 3RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A vessel had been reported ashore on the Haisborough Sands, but she refloated and went on her way. - Rewards, £26 2s..

JULY 24TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. It had been reported that a convoy had been attacked and that an aeroplane had come down, but though the life-boat found that a convoy had been bombed, she could not find any aeroplane. - Rewards, £5 3s..<...

APRIL 6TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. An unknown aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £10 6s..

THE Institution wishes to express its thanks to the following firms who, in the past year, have supplied certain stores for life-boats without charge: Biscuit manufacturers: Huntley and Palmers, Ltd., Read- ing.

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Jan. 1.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Insti- tution, with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to the EARL of DUMORE, and 51. to three fishermen, in acknowledgment of their gallant services in putting off in an open boat, and proceeding,...