LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Committee of Management suffered another severe loss with the death on 21st July of Mr. Norman Wales, J.P., who joined the Committee in 1961 and served on a number of sub-committees. He was chairman of Wates Ltd.

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Margate, Kent - At 4.43 p.m. on 26th September, 1967, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in difficulties with a fouled propeller six miles north east of the North Foreland lighthouse. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service...

AT 8.28 on the evening of 16th October, 1967, the coastguard told the acting honorary secretary of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr. C. A. Perry, that a red flare had been sighted at the entrance to the River Blackwater. The maroons...

An exhibition of early English bibles, belonging to Mr. E. Newgass, honorary secretary of the Steyning branch, was held in Worthing for the Institution by Mr. J. R. Aldridge, for many years the honotaty secretary at...

Launches 26 Lives rescued 25 The War ended on the last minute of the 8th of May

MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point,...

At 11.13 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, a yacht was seen firing distress signals in the vicinity of the Tongue sands. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.20 in a strong south south westerly wind and...

On their bikes! A civic appeal started by Cllr George Parkinson, chairman of Wokingham district council in 1993 and pictured right, culminated in a sponsored cycle ride in April and brought the final total to £11,700 for his two-year... - View image in PDF

LIFE-BOATMEN RECOVER DRIFTING LAUNCH Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.8 a.m. on Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the Tenby coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the motor launch Gay Venture was missing from her moorings. The...