LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

.—-At 11 o'clock on the night of the 19th December, a message was received by telephone reporting that a vessel was making distress signals off the Hook Sands at the entrance of Poole Harbour. The Life-boat Hamar was promptly launched...

On the afternoon of the 13th January the coxswain of the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was warned that a small boat, manned by three youths, had gone out of the harbour. A moderate N.W.

breeze was blowing, and a...

THE LIFEBOAT Anjn class lifeboat OM-1150 Hibtrntt Built 1989 Cost £600.000 Funding A very generous donation from the Irish Sailor* and Soldier* L*nd Truft. which also provided funding toward* th« running of lifeboat* in Ireland THE...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—On the 4th of December, 1950, the Belgian trawler Yarmouth, bound for Ostend with white fish and carrying acrew of eleven, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. There she wirelessed for...

YET ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Aith, Shetlands.— At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1947, the services ^of the life-boat were requested for a maternity case at Sandsound.

The woman had been unsuccessfully...

Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...

COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...

FRAMED letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., have been sent to Mr. C. J. Bean and and Mr. R. Swalwell, the crew of the Scarborough IRB, for their efforts when a child...