LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 1 0TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.28P.M. the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported that a small motor boat had broken down off the Beacon, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched at 4.12 P.M., A fresh N.W....

JULY 5TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a rubber boat had been seen one and a half miles off St. Mildred’s Bay, Westgate. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 3...

OWING to the fact that the present Head- quarters at Life-boat House, Charing Cross Road, have for some years been too small for the staff required to deal with the constant expansion of the Institution's activities, the Committee of...

Launches 96. Lives rescued 231.

OCTOBER 2ND. - FRASERBURGH. ABERDEENSHIRE The life-boat was launched twice to the help of the steam trawler Northward, from which she had previously rescued the crew of ten. For details see...

Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the famous explorer, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1951, died on the 3rd of March, 1959, at the age of 54. He served on the finance, boat and construction and operations...

Galway Bay - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a North Aran lighthouse- keeper informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two occupants had been sighted about one hundred and fifty yards off the island on which the lighthouse...

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...

HELICOPTER COVER THE Department of Trade and Industry has placed a contract with Bristow Helicopters Ltd.

for the provision of a Whirlwind Series III helicopter for SAR work. The helicopter, which is based at Mansion, Kent,...