LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

New Quay,Cardiganshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was reported in difficulties be- tween five and six miles north-east of New Quay. There was a shirt flying from her mast-head...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.31 in the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the West Mersea police had reported a fishing boat drifting towards Colne, and at 12.48 the life-boat Edward...

CAUGHT IN A STRONG EBB Swanage, Dorset.—At 3.23 in the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 3.35 in a...

SICK MAN LANDED Salcombe, South Devon;—At 10.20 on the night of the 14th of December, 1947, the Hope Cove coastguard, tele- phoned that the American steamer Thomas W. Owen, of Wilmington, was waiting ten miles due south of Prawle Point for a...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local fishing boat Success, which had been out fishing all night, enquired by wireless at nine in the morning of the 20th cf May, 1948, what the condition was at the "harbour mouth. She was told that if she came...

MRS. APPENNEA GREEN, of Clapham, who died at the beginning of August, at the age of 82, was one of the most enthusiastic and successful honorary secretaries whom the Institution has ever had. She started the Clapham Branch in 1931, with a...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk. —At 3.20 in the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht to the south-east of Aldeburgh, with only one man aboard, was making heavy weather, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Lucy...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.20 in the morning of the 19th of June, 1948, while the motor life-boat City of Brad- ford I, on temporary duty at the station, was out on a practice run, the Post Office at Portmagee reported that a local fishing...