LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.35, on the evening of the 24th of July, 1950, the palice reported that a boy had fallen over the 400 feet cliffs at Maug- hold Head. He was so seriously injured that he could not be carried up the cliff. The...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 10.45 on the night of the 29th of March, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small vessel had been seen drifting towards Chale Bay. Her engines were not working and she was tiring red flares. The...

MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...

THE Glasgow Branch has received ten guineas from the Captain and Crew of the motor-ship Cape York of the Lyle Shipping Company of Glasgow. Before passing round the Institution's collecting-book the Captain wrote in it a special appeal in...

BY the death of Mr. Sholto F. Middleton, in October of last year, the Institution has lost one of its most successful and devoted Honorary Secretaries. Mr.

Middleton founded the Branch at Seaford, Sussex, in 1917, and...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel anchored about three miles east-north-east of Ramsey harbour was burning red flares. At one o'clock the...

Three new members of Whitby D class inflatable lifeboat crew, Michael Readman, David Smith and Glenn Goodberry, took a smaller inflatable craft than the one to which they are accustomed down the River Esk from Grosmont to Whitby swing bridge... - View image in PDF

Mr. W. Hopper, one of the Margate crew which went to Dunkirk in 1940. - View image in PDF