LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent. — At 3.20 in the afternoon on the 20th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned to say that a small yacht was in distress in Pegwell Bay. The two men on board were waving an oar with a flag attached.

At 3.28...

Walmer, Kent.—At 2.11 on the after- noon of the 15th of July, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a steamer had reported that the tug Trapu, of Dunkirk, had gone aground on the Goodwin Sands about half a mile south-by-east of the West...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that two girls in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea half a mile south of Pendine Village. At 5.30 the life-boat Henry Comber Broirn...

Montrose, Angus.^On the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1957, the wife of the skipper of the fishing boat Mizpah informed the motor mechanic that her husband's boat had broken down with engine trouble off Buddon Point., At two o'clock...

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.55 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a naval whaler was in difficulties one mile north-cast of Strumble Head.

The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.52 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a local fishing boat was flying a distress signal about two miles south-east of the harbour. The life-boat Greater London (Civil Service...

The motor tanker, D. L. Harper, of Danzig, 12.350 tons, bound laden from Aruba, West Indies, to Hamburg, with five passen- gers and thirty-eight crew, struck the Crane Rocks, about half a mile north of Lizard Head, on the 20th June.

How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1931.

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