LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the night of the 10th February, the bark Guy- ana, of Glasgow, bound to the West Indies, was driven ashore on the Carrig Rocks, off Greenore Point, County Wexford, in a N.E.

gale. Intelligence having been conveyed to the...

BEFORE the invasion of the Romans, York was one of the chief towns of the Brigantes, the most powerful of the British Tribes. By them it was known as Yure- Wic, and even at that time was a place of importance. The parent city is sup- posed...

ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR DRIFTING CANOE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 7.50 on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and an eleven-year-old girl in a canoe had drifted out of sight off...

On the 11th November, at 3 A.M., signal rockets were fired from the Gull Lightship, and were answered by a rocket from Ramsgate pier-head. The Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid were at once manned, left the harbour at 3.15, and proceeded...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.55 on the night of the 2nd of April, 1948, the St. Ann's Head coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been re- ceived from a resident of Wooltack Point, that his brother, Mr. Codd, had left for...

COXSWAIN JOHN KING, of Bridlington, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four men from the motor fishing vessel Normanby on 6th January, 1967.

At 5.37 on the afternoon of...

Aberdeen. At 3.22 p.m. on 2nd February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ross Fortune of Grimsby was nearly aground in Aberdeen Bay and had asked for assistance. The life-boat Ramsay Dyce left at 3.44 in...

Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.

Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...