LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GOLD EN CHARTER V Pr e- Paid Funeral Plans THE CARING APPROACH TO A SENSITIVE SUBJECT THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them. Not...

The Example of South port.

THE Institution is fortunate in having in a large number of its Branches, particularly in the North of England, the support, and very often the active personal help as well, of the Mayors and...

Shore, lifeboat and helicopter crews save anglerA huge wave threw an angler off rocks into the sea near Padstow, Cornwall. Luckily, two boys saw the incident and ran to get help and the Padstow lifeboat crew were soon paged. They jumped in...

cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...

Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. — At 1.25 in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a motor boat was ashore south-west of St. Anne's Pier. She was pounding in the surf on Salters Bank, half a mile north of...

Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 10.19 a-ni.

on nth November, 1966, news was given that the barge Isle of Gigha had capsized three miles south of Chuirn Island. Two men were missing. There was a strong southerly wind with a rough...

Margate. Kent.—21st May, 1938. A barge-yacht had carried away her boom, but she went on her way to Whitstable without help.—Rewards, £9 18s..

24th and 26th February. A vessel had broken away from her tow, but was able to anchor to await tugs and did not need help.— Rewards, 1st launch, £24 15s.; 2nd launch, £8 8s..