LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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...

Ramsgate, Kent. — 22nd August.

Two German students had been re- ported as six miles east of the East Goodwin light-vessel in a canoe. The life-boat went out to look for them, but they reached Ramsgate without help.—Rewards,...

LONG SEARCH IN A FOG Margate, Kent.—At 9.32 on the night of the 12th of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a boy who had gone fishing in a dinghy off the Ness at 8 o'clock that morning, had not been seen since. The motor...

SEARCH FOR BODY At ii a.m. on the following day the Ardrossan harbour master told the honorary secretary that the pilot boat at Ardrossan had capsized on leaving a tanker and that a pilot had been drowned. He asked if the life-boat would...

FOUR STRANDED ON ISLAND Howth, Co. Dublin. A woman telephoned the honorary secretary at 7.25 on the evening of Sunday the 29th September, 1963, reporting that a fire had been seen on the island, Ireland's Eye. The Gardai telephoned...

DECEMBER 19TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A tanker had been attacked by German aeroplanes and set on fire, and the life-boat and naval motor boats went as near to her as possible, but saw no sign of anyone on board. - Rewards,...

'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.

But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...

THE Royal National Life-boat Institu- tion has had only four secretaries during the 107 years of its existence. The first was Thomas Edwards, who served from 1824 to 1850. Richafd Lewis (1850 to 1883) and Charles Dibdin (1883 to 1910) were...