LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Gemma picks a perfick lottery Actress Gemma Craven, also known as 'Ma Larkin', drew the winning tickets of the 71st RNLI Lifeboat Lottery on 31 October 1995.

Gemma has been starring in 'The Darling Buds of...

JANUARY 19TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.

At 12.3 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a large vessel was ashore about one mile south of South Carr.

A north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough...

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list of New Branches.

The following new Branches have been formed since the list published in Life Lifeboat, for March 1926.

NORTHERN DISTRICT.

Branch. Honorary...

Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...

FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.

Date Station 1961 Jan. 1 Weymouth 4 Kirkcudbright 4 Penlee 5 Troon 6 Scarborough 6 Troon ..

„ 6 Weymouth ,, 6 Dover 6 Whitby „ 7 Maltaig 9 Wick ,, 11 Lerwick 12 Padstow No. 1 12 Arklow 13...

THE Danish Government have awarded to Coxswain Richard Payne, of New- haven, Sussex, an inscribed Gold Watch, and to each member of the Newhaven Crew an inscribed Silver Cup, in recognition of their gallantry in rescuing the crew of the...