LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent.—At 3.10 on the after- noon of the 13th of July, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making heavy weather about a mile south-east of Leather- cotes. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.15 in a...

Notes of the Quarter 3 Lifeboat Services 5 XT JX Lifeboat Open Days 1984,Poole 12 487 Forest Row Lifeboat Choir 12 The naming at Cowes of RNLB Sir Max Aitken II 13 Chairman- a Safe— art 1- caPsizing and righting, by James Paffett, RCNC...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 11.10 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, red flares were reported about 400 yards east of the entrance to Lymington river. At 11.28 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe proceeded in a southerly gale. The tide was...

TO MARK the Royal Wedding in July telegram of congratulations was sent to HRH The Prince of Wales on behalf of the RNLI by its chairman, the Duke of Atholl: 'The Committee of Management, lifeboat crews, voluntary workers and staff of the...

THK ton highest remittances received from Branches during the year 1st October, 1919, to 30th September, 1920, are JIB follows:— ±. (/ City of London Liverpool Bradford .

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LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At eight in the evening of the 2nd September, 1942, a visitor reported that several people could be heard shouting for help beneath the cliffs to the east of the harbour. A light westerly wind was blowing, but the sea was...

THE occasional claims for property salvage made by members of life-boat crews sometimes lead to misunder- standing of both the law and practice in this matter, and mis-statements of fact are not infrequently made both publicly and privately....

IN 1928 the Institution stationed at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, a motor life- boat of the Ramsgate type. This life-boat, which had been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, was named Greater London in the following year by H.R...