LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HERRIDES.

At 2.30 in the afternoon, the doctor on the island of Colonsay telephoned asking for the life-boat’s help for a boy who had been badly injured and was in urgent need of surgical aid. A...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing coble Lily left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 19th April to haul crab pots. Later on the wind freshened considerably, and when the coble was seen making for home a strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...

JULY 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.21 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized oil Ness Point. A gentle S.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was...

THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...

MARCH 8TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.

At 2.28 P.M. the coastguard called for the life-boat to go out to a steamer to bring off some wounded men. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched...

Miss Ellen Goodeve, who was probably the oldest active supporter of the life-boat service, died at the Queen Mary Homes in Chislehurst, Kent, in August, 1962, at the age of 103. To within a few months of her death Miss Goodeve was regularly...

Two calls NEWTON AUXILIARY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Craster lifeboat station at 1100 on Saturday May 1 that three men had moored their fishing boat at Newton Haven, a few miles to the north of Craster, and, trying to row...

COMMANDER VAUX has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., the deputy chief inspector.

Commander Michelmore joined the Life-boat Service as a district inspector of...