LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THIS year the Institution will again have for sale two Christmas cards, one in colours, the other in black and white, and a pocket calendar.

The card in colour will show the Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache returning...

Arklow, and Wicklow, Co. Wicklow.— At 6.15 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1953, the Valentia Radio Station told the Arklow life-boat station that the French trawlers Petite Micheline and Vers le Destin had wirelessed that they had...

Honorary Secretary, Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Branch THE crew of the Cullercoats life-boat and the people of Cullercoats and Whitley Bay are justly proud of their bowman, Ray Oliver. Not only is Ray a first-class officer in the boat, but...

COXSWAIN DOUGLAS GRANT, of Selsey, and Coxswain Henry West, of Sheringham, have become the first two members of life-boat crews to receive gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.

This fund was established in 1955...

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At five o'clock on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the Walton Bay signal station rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds lightvessel had parted one of her cables and needed help. Seven...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 oil the afternoon of the 10th of February, 19,55. the skipper of a fishing boat told the coxswain that anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing boats Faith Star, Success, and Lead Us. At 2.35 the Xo. 1...

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THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Coverack (Cornwall) life-boat being launched on service and...