LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOLYHEAD. — It having been reported that a ship was ashore in Church' Bay, the Thomas Fidden Life-boat was launched at 1 P.M. on the 9th of January, and taken in tow by a steam-tug. On reaching the vessel, which proved to be the barque...

Salcombe, Devon.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1954, a man swimming off Gara Rocks wasreported to be in danger. At 1.30 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched. The sea was choppy and a moderate...

JULY 14TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. About 11.30 in the morning the Southbourne coastguard reported that a boat had capsized a mile from the shore oft Christchurch Ledge. The motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 11.35 in...

At 9.30 A.M. on the 13th December information was received j that a barge was apparently ashore on the Hook Sands, and the No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched to her assistance. It was blowing a S. by W. gale, the sea was...

UNITED STATES.

THE Annual Report for the United States Coastguard for the year ending 30th June, 1915, indicates a new arrangement by which, in accordance with the passage of the Coastguard Act...

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• Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, was a man of considerable vision who always pursued his ideas relentlessly, though some of his schemes were not realised until after his death. He_ proposed the formation of an international...

DISMASTED YACHT Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 10.20 p.m. on 7th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dismasted yacht with rigging fouling her propeller needed help one mile and a quarter south of West Princessa...