LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

KASTBOURNK: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were...

OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tkefgures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 330-341.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 166 Drogheda, Ireland, 264. Lizard, Cornwall, 127. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks, 31....

Greater London.

THE Annual Conference of Branches in Greater London was held on 9th October, at the City Hall, Westminster. Dele- gates were present from twenty-one Branches and nine Ladies' Life-boat Guilds, and were...

CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...

Dinghy adrift off Inchcolm AT 1644 on the afternoon of December 8, 1974, Queensferry honorary treasurer, who was deputising for the honorary secretary, was informed by the Coastguard that a man was in difficulty in a small dinghy off...

THE LIFE-BOAT Christmas card and the calendar for 1939 will have the above picture reproduced on them in colours.

The picture shows a modern motor life-boat of the Watson type being launched down a slipway. It has been...

CLOVELLY, DEVON.—A member of the Local Committee having observed what he took to be a signal of distress from a vessel in Barnstable Bay about 10 P.M.

on 28th April, reported it to the Coastguard, and after consulting the...

AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL last May the gold medal for outstanding gallantry was presented to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the silver medal to Coxswain/Mechanic Alexander ' Alastair' Gilchrist of...