LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.45 oi\ the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1953, a local boatman reported that a girl had fallen over a cliff into the sea at the Nose of Howth, half a mile from the harbour. At 2.55 the life-boat...

Margate, Kent.—At 11.6 on the morn- ing of the 19th of April, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down in Kingsgate Bay, but had made no distress signals.

Watch was kept on her, and at 11.53...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 10 a.m. on gth August, 1966, a white cabin cruiser appeared to be in distress aboutfour miles south west of the station.

There was a moderate south westerly breeze with a slight sea. It was low...

OCTOBER 16TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 5.30 A.M. messages were received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had caught fire and crashed into the sea a quarter of a mile off Happisburgh Beach, and at 5.46 A.M. the No. 1 motor...

READERS of The Life-Boat will not need to be reminded of the efforts which the Institution has made during the last two years to call attention to the failure of the shipping community of Great Britain to give adequate support to the...

Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At * 8.7 P.M. on the 4th November, 1939, a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—10th October, 1939. A steamer had gone ashore, but refloated without help.—Rewards, £65 17*..

PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...