LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By the death of Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer, on 28th January, at the age of sixty-five, the Institution has lost one of its most trusted and valued honorary secretaries. As the honorary secretary at Cromer, Mr. Barclay was in charge of one...

Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—Early on the morning of the 17th October the s.s. Shuna, of Glasgow, bound for Gothenburg, ran hard on the rocks one mile S.S.W. of Chuirn Island Light.

A west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 23rd of November.

1956, the Deal coastguard reported that an aircraft of the United States Air Force had crashed into the sea near the Cork lightvessel and asked for...

10th August.

Two fishermen reported that they had picked up another fisherman's boat.

The life-boat went out to look for him and found his lobster pots, but no trace of the man.—Rewards, £4 10s....

Selsey, Sussex.—19th August, 1939.

It had been reported that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea with a man on board shouting for help, but the lifeboat could find nothing.—Rewards, £11 15s..

Great Yarmouth and Corleston, Norfolk.

—6th September, 1939. An explosion had been reported in the neighbourhood of the Gorton Light-vessel, but the lifeboat found that the light-vessel itself was all right, and there was...

Dover, Kent.—On the 1st November, 1939, at the request of the chief of staff, Naval Base, the motor life-boat Sir William Hillary was launched at 1.50 P.M., but the services rendered have not been reported. The life-boat returned to her...

C a m p b e l t o w n , Argyllshire.—7th August, 1938. A yacht had been reported capsized near Pladda, Arran, but nothing could be found. It was believed that basking sharks splashing about had been mistaken for the capsized yacht.—Rewards,...