LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Each year since 1946, a local pub in New Quay, Dyfed, has made a collection for the RNLI with a huge bottle on the bar.

Together with his wife, David Rees, one of the few remaining crew of the William Cantrell Ashley, the... - View image in PDF

THE magnificence and terror of a gale on the rock-bound coasts of Cornwall can scarcely be exaggerated. The long impe- tuous swell of the great Atlantic, flinging itself on the rugged granite cliffs which guard the shores, is by its own...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, a message was received from theAlderney harbour master that three men had put out in a boat to go fishing and had not returned. They had been last seen at six...

MR JOHN GRAY, CBE Belfast branch committee member, 1947; and Belfast branch chairman since 1969.

Mr Gray is a businassman in the export field, who gives a most able lead to this successful branch's fund raising, and in...

AT this conference delegates from fourteen branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Pembroke and Radnor met at Cardiff on 29th May. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...

THE Institution has received gifts of biscuits from Messrs. Peek Frean, Huntley & Palmer, McVitie & Price and W. &. R. Jacob, and of chocolate from Messrs. Rowntree, Cadbury and Fry.

These are the emergency...

Steeley determination! A donation of £25,000 was recently presented to John Clugston, chairman of the South Bank Committee Humber lifeboat appeal by Stuart Pettifor, managing director of British Steel (Sections, Plates and Commercial...

TWO SERVICES IN BAD WEATHER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 a.m.

on Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the coxswain was told that a local fishing boat which had left for the fishing ground eight miles north of Wicklow had not...