LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 5TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. An Admiralty tug was in difficulties, but she was taken in tow by a minesweeper. - Rewards, £5 12s..

South Western Division Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start...

The s.s. Brighton, of Newcastle, whilst bound from the North for Calais "on the llth June, stranded on Deal Bank. The vessel was observed from the shore, and the Reserve Life-boat, which is at present stationed at Deal, was launched...

MCH. 22ND. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 1.10 P.M. a steamer was reported ashore on the Plough Reef, one mile east of Holy Island. The weather was fine but cold, with a W.N.W. breeze and a choppy sea. The motor...

RIDLEY HOUSE, Felixstowe College, whose interest in the Life-boat Service is so great that it has formed a Ladies' Life-boat Guild within the House, has staged two competitions for the benefit of the Service. One is a general know- ledge...

By the death of Mrs. H. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea, who died on 22nd November, 1929, at the age of 85, the Institution has lost one of its oldest workers. She became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she...

WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.

—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...

An analysis of the first total raised by Queensferry ladies' guild in the year 1981/82 makes interesting reading. Of the total £1,800, well over £100 was made from each of the following events; a country dance, a cheese and...