LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the new year's honours list appeared three lifeboat names. Commander Philip Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the late chief inspector of life-boats, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. John S. Duncan, the honorary secretary...

On the 22nd October the Life-boat Charles and Mar- garet Eyerton went out from this station in a moderate N.W. gale, and rescued the crew of 4: men from the schooner Sarah, of Strangford, which was totally wrecked.

The Life...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1953, the coastguard tele- phoned that the tanker Alva Bay, of London, which was .one mile south-east of Mumbles Head, had reported that she had a very sick man on...

Howth, Co. Dublin. At 10.30 on the morning of the 12th of March, 1958, the coxswain heard on his radio that the fishing trawler Ros Aluinn of Howth had lost her rudder and was in need of help.At 11.10 the life-boat R.P.L. put out in a rough...

To SIDNEY H. B. PAGE, on his retirement, after serving for 21J years as coxswain, G months as second coxswain and 1 year as bowman of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement...

By the death of Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer, on 28th January, at the age of sixty-five, the Institution has lost one of its most trusted and valued honorary secretaries. As the honorary secretary at Cromer, Mr. Barclay was in charge of one...

On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.

The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.

MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....