LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.

ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...

Crowded hour THE OUTBOARD ENGINE of an inflatable dinghy broke down just as she was clearing Shoreham Harbour eastern breakwater on the afternoon of Sunday, August 1. A message came from HM Coastguard at 1521, saying that the dinghy, with...

• Lifeboats of the World by E. W.

Middleton (Blandford Press £3.75) is the most comprehensive study yet made of the way in which different countries organise their lifeboat services. The author examines the services in...

JUNE 9TH. - WALMER, KENT. Distress signals had been seen four miles N.E. of the coastguard station, but nothing was found, nor had three vessels which the life-boat spoke seen any signals. - Rewards, £13 1s..

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

•—The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood put out at 9.50 A.M. on the llth March for exercise, with the branch chairman, Lieut.- Commander H. K. Case, D.S.C., R.N.R.<...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th of December, 1955, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the life-boat coxswain had reported that a yacht was driving towards the sea wall east of the...

DINGHY IN A ROUGH SEA Ramsgate, Kent.—• At 4.16 in the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned a message from the Broadstairs Sailing Club that owing to the wind and tide one of their dinghies could not reach...

Greater London.

CITY.—Annual meeting at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £6,241, as compared with £7,647 in 1931.

CLAPHAM.—Whist drive....