LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 17TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

Shortly after midnight on the 16th of December the Paignton police telephoned that a ship was ashore at Hollacombe Point, near the Torquay and Paignton Gas Works. A later message said that...

The Scar- borough motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 12.50 P.M. on the 18th February, as a message had been received from the Rurniston coast- guard that a small boat was making very bad weather three or four miles east of...

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at 4.15 the coast- guard telephoned that several fishing boats from Pittenweem were lying off the harbour, waiting for the tide to rise...

When the war in Europe ended sixteen months ago, six life-boats were in the yard waiting to be finished. Four of them have since gone to the coast.

Of the 29 life-boats which the Institution had planned to build as soon as...

Lives saved.

Newbiggin, North Sunder- land, Port Isaac, Scarboro', Staithes, Stonehaven, Whitby —rendered assistance.

Frobfsher, steam trawler, of Yar- mouth, assisted to save vessel and 9 George...

THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...

DEC. 9TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

At 8.15 P.M. a message was received that distress signals had been seen E.N.E. of the life-boat station. A strong S. wind was blowing, and there was a moderate ground swell. At 9 P.M. the...

The Book of the Sea. By T. C. BRIDGES. (George Gf. Harrap & Co. 7s. 6rf. net.) IN this book of 280 odd pages of large print, admirably illustrated, Mr. Bridges has succeeded in compressing an extraordinary number of facts, almost...