LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two lectureson the life-boat service have been given recently in prisons. Captain Basil Hall, R.N., late district inspector of life-boats and a silver medallist of the Institution spoke at Wormwood Scrubbs, and Commander Charles Parker,...

Hastings, Sussex.—25th September, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported down in the channel between Hastings and Le Treport. No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the distress call...

Holyhead, Anglesey. — 24th October, 1937. A distress message had been received from the Finnish steamer Axel, which was on fire. She had, however, given a wrong bearing. She was not off Holyhead, but off the Dutch coast. Her crew were...

On the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage life-boat rescued the only man on board a barge which had broken adrift from a tug and was driving for the shore. For this service a full account of which is given on page 190, Coxswain Robert Brown...

At the Hewas Inn, Sticker, Cornwall, a giant whiskey bottle was set up by landlord and landlady Peter and Jo Shoults which collected £134 before it was ceremoniously smashed open by television personality Mike Whitmarsh; the money was... - View image in PDF

The lighting services have given as never before. Last year they gave £19.385- The Air Force gave eleven times as much as in the last year of peace; the Navy twelve .times as much; the Array twenty-one times as much..

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1957, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was finishing a demonstration of a rescue by breeches buoy during an exercise in Whitby harbour when a message was received that a small...

HELICOPTER-LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 p.m.

on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the life-boat coxswain reported that a man who had put off for a fishing trip off Bembridge in the...