LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 1st October the small motor fishing boat Marigold, of Thurso, which had gone out fishing, was overtaken by bad weather and was unable to return to harbour. A watch was kept on her for some time, and at 9 A.M. the Motor Life- boat...

Engine failure THERE WAS A northerly near gale, force 7, blowing and a rough sea when the relief 47ft Watson class lifeboat, T.G.B., on temporary duty at Lowestoft, left her mooring at 1832 on the evening of Friday October 5, 1984. She was...

Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.59 on the night of the 31st of August, 1957, the Hart- land Point coastguard reported that the yacht Eidolon, of Plymouth, was firing red flares six miles south-west of Hartland Point. Her steering gear had broken and...

The Life-boat Kentwell was called out on the 29th November to the assistance of the s.s.

Framfield, of London, which stranded on the Newcombe Sands whilst bound from North America with a cargo of iron ore. The Life-boat...

Montrose, Angus.—Retween eight and nine on the morning of the 27th August the wind increased to a strong S.S.E.

gale. In the face of a strong ebb tide this set up a heavy sea on the bar, and made the entrance into harbour...

When the tempest raves, and the angry waves Break crashing on the shore ; When the vessel cracks, and drops in her tracks, I face the ocean's roar.

I dance o'er the heaving surge and the foam, For the stormy sea is...

Sir Frederick Moneypenny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., of Belfast.

BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...

FOR some time past it has been felt by the Institution that its Branch at Grimsby did not receive from the trawler owners the support which it bad reason to expect in view of the fact that Grimsby is the chief centre of the British Fishing...