LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lt Cdr Reg Coombe RN (RTD), Hayle branch's first chairman when it was reformed in 1972. He continued as chairman for 10 years until retirement in 1982..

Lt Cdr Brian Miles. - View image in PDF

DECEMBER 27TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.10 A.M. the Hoylake coastguard reported that a vessel had been mined ten miles N.W. of the Bar Lightvessel, and the No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out. There was a light...

Mike Soars of Brierly Hill and Kingswinford branch set up a special amateur radio station for the RNLI's anniversary to help spread the word.. - View image in PDF

AMONG the names of honorary workers to whom awards have been made this year is Mrs. Ellen Surman, who for twenty-seven years has been an honorary worker at Neath, Glamorganshire.

In accepting the reward, Mrs. Surman...

IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...

THURSO, N.B.—On the 16th September a very severe W. gale was experienced here. About nineteen sailing vessels and two steamers were lying in Scrabster Eoadstead at the time. Some of them had anchored far out beyond the proper anchorage-...

HOLLAND-BOUND RAFT Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.50 p.m. on 5th November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a home-made raft showing a white light was drifting out of Harwich harbour. At 5.8 the life-boat Edian...