LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 6.35 on the evening of the 29th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that a boat appeared to be aground on Arranman's Barrel Reef.

This was confirmed by the...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. On the morn- ing of the 4th August, 1961, when the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was returning to her station from Brightlingsea after a service the day before, the coxswain decided to in- vestigate the position of a...

Fire Aboard by FRANK RUSHBROOK (The Technical Press, 1961) is a most comprehensive work by a man who first became a fireman in 1938 and has since held a number of responsible posts concerned with the task of fire...

Galway Bay. On the 13th December, 1961, the Assistant Commissionei of Irish Lights asked the honorary secre- tary if the life-boat would take a sick keeper off the Slyne Head lighthouse when the weather permitted. At the time of his request...

Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore near the eastern end of Goat Island in Stornoway harbour. The life-boat The James and Margaret lioijd put out...

Kirkcudbright.—On the evening of the 3rd of August, 1957, the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was returning from a visit to Port William for pub- licity when a message was received at 8.10 from Portpatrick radio that red flares had been...

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the coastguard reported that the skipper of the trawler John Willment had found one of his crew in a state of collapse with no apparent heart-beat or pulse.

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. On the afternoon of the 11th of May, 1958, the deputy honorary secretary and members of the life-boat crew were watching a yacht race, when a sudden squall sprang up, the weather grew worse, and several...