LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Miss T. H. Ashe has been appointed district organizing secretary for Wales, and Wing-Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., district organizing secretary for the Midlands.

Miss Ashe succeeds Lieut.-Colonel V. M. Lewis, M.C., who...

Two fishing-cobles, with three men in each, were observed making for this harbour at 2.30 P.M. on the 15th April.

A strong E. gale had suddenly sprung up, causing a heavy sea on the bar, and the boats were in great danger...

SHORTLY before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of March, 1959, which was Easter Monday, a 30-feet motor fishing boat with three people on board, who were returning from a pleasure trip, capsized at the entrance to Christchurch...

Two under tow AT 1209 on August 21, 1973, the honorary secretary of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, was informed by Warden Point Coastguard that a yacht had been sighted aground off the Red Sand area, bearing 050° three to four miles from...

NOVEMBER 27TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but nothing was found except a body and a rubber dinghy, which were picked up by an R.A.F. rescue launch. - Rewards, £15 12s..

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Hubert Petit, of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, who is only the third man to win the Institution's highest award for gallantry, its gold medal, since the war. An account of the service for which he...

At 10.20 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small sailing boat was seen being carried to seaward by the wind and tide. At 10.40 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour and a half after...

The second annual raft race organised by York branch on the River Ouse was held on a sunny Saturday in July and about 40 entries mustered at the starting point, the Viking Hotel. The Lord Mayor of York and Mayoress judged all entries for the...