LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

As soon as possible after the arrival of a new Life-boat at her Station an exer- cise is held, preferably in rough weather, in order not only to test her sea-going qualities, but also as a means of giving the crew some experience of the boat...

ON the 16th of September, 1951, the Boulogne Life-boat Society inaugur- ated the new life-boat and station which have replaced those destroyed in the war. The ceremony was at- tended by the Dover life-boat, Southern Africa, and her crew, Mr....

ON the 12th of January, 1950, H.M.

submarine Truculent, with about seventy-nine men on board, and the Swedish motor tanker, Divina, collided in the Thames Estuary; the submarine sank at once.

This was...

Ferry aground in North Sea Cromer - East Division An arduous service by Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat to a 5,000 ton roll-on, rolloff ferry which was aground in bad weather has earned the Coxswain, Richard Davies, a letter of appreciation...

THE RNLI'S ACCOUNTS for 1975 are not complete at the time of going to press, hut it is certain that expenditure will have exceeded income. In other words there w i l l he a deficit which will have to he made good.

The...

WE feel sure that the accompanying illustration will prove of interest to our readers. It is a photograph taken on the occasion of the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York to the Lizard Life-boat, which was...

In response to a message received from the Coastguard on the 2nd December, stating that a four-masted barque was ashore and in need of immediate assistance, the Life- boat Bob Newbon was launched. The vessel proved to be the Asnieres, of...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Sidney Cann of Appledore, who was appointed bowman in 1922, became second coxswain in 1931 and has been coxswain since 1933. Since he became a boat's officer Appledore life-boats have been...