LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the morning of the 19th April, large red flares were seen on the Middle Gross Sand, and the Middle Cross, St.

Nicholas, and Gorton light-vessels were firing rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden was launched, a...

Margate, Kent.—At 12.55 in the after- noon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coast- guard reported that a rowing boat, the Boy Bill, of Westgate, with one man on board, was drifting seawards one and a half miles to the north-west, and the motor...

Hythe, Kent.—At 10.50 A.M. on the 2nd August it was reported verbally to the coxswain that a flare had been seen from a yacht. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat The Viscountess Wakefield was launched at...

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Pulling Chanty.

BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.

" Our men have the advantage of a local knowledge which, if it had been taken into account by...

LLANDUDNO.—On Sunday, the 12th April, a message was received by telephone from Colwyn Bay, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, stating that a brigantine was showing signals of distress. She was lying at anchor about two and a half miles...

Presentation of Prizes in the London District.

AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th April, the Mayor of Westminster (Mr. Jacques Abady) presided at the presentation of the prizes won in the Life-boat Essay...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...