LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON 27TH OCTOBER, 1927, an Italian seaman spent the night clutching the rigging of the stricken 6,oooton s.s. habo, an Italian merchantman, which had foundered on the Scilly Rocks at the Isles of Scilly. The next morning he was snatched to...

PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 226 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE 227 TWENTY-SEVEN HOURS ON SERVICE . . . . 228 AWARD TO WEYMOUTH DOCTOR 231 TWO SUSSEX IRB RESCUES . . 232 H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA 234 WHY PUT...

TEIGNMOUTH.—On the 20th December the Life-boat China rescued the crew of a fishing boat, 3 in number, who had been overtaken by a high wind and sea, and were in danger of being wrecked on the bar off the port, on which a heavy sea was...

Kllmore, Co. Wexford.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of February, 1956, a man reported that the trawler Marylis, of Lorient, had run on the rocks in Ballyhealy Bay and that her crew of nine needed help. At 10.35 the life- boat Ann Isabella...

St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.30 on the evening of the 9th of October, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the harbour office that red flares had been seen in St. Ouen Bay. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon put out at 6.49 in a...

Margate, Kent.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 8th of August, 1952, thecoastguard telephoned that a sailing barge was ashore on the North-East Shingle Sands, and at 6.10 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The...

The Life-boat Oldham was launched on service at 11 P.M. on the 16th March in answer to signals of distress made by the schooner Two Brothers, of Car- narvon. There was a whole S.S.W.

gale blowing and a very heavy sea, and...

Two new motor life-boats have been sent to the Irish coast this year: Kil- more, County Wexford, and Howth, County Dublin.

Kilmore, County Wexford.

The new motor life-boat at Kilmore has replaced a pulling...