LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE first news that the steam trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, was in dis- tress to reach a life-boat station came in the form of a message from the Wick coastguard to the Thurso, Caithness-shire, honorary...

IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...

ON the outbreak of War last year many Branch Committees felt that the arrangements which they had in prospect for the benefit of the Institution should be abandoned and their labours devoted to the many War Funds which immediately sprang...

MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...

THE Inaugural Ceremony of the New Ramsey Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Claude Hill, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Pre- sident of the Branch, presented the Life-boat to the Branch, and Lady Hill named her.

Sunken speed boat WHILE FISHING with rods and lines from a 14' Dejon motor cruiser, Sandpiper, anchored 150 yards off Tan-y-Bwlch beach, about half a mile south of Aberystwyth Harbour, on Sunday, July 6, 1975, Richard Wheeler and John...

0 Rage of Sand: The Story of the Men who Built their Own Seaside Town (Ernest Benn, £2.25) is by Gabriel Harrison, a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and is a very readable account of the growth of St.

• The Flamborough Life-boats: A History of the Flamborough Stations, by Ralph S. Fawcett (Fawcett, 74 Lime Grove, Draycott, Derby, price 25p plus 5p postage) tells the story of one of Yorkshire's famous stations. Before 1871 there had,...