LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Amble, Northumberland. — In the morning of the 5th of July, 1948, the local fishing cobles, Hephzi-Bah, and The John, were at sea. At 9.30, although the breeze from the north- north-west was moderate, a rough sea was running, and at...

DROGHKDA.—On the 10th January the No. 2 Life-boat, John Suiter Charley, of this station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Sisters, of Sunderland, which vessel being driven in on the lee-shore of Bettystown strand came in contact...

ABERSOCH.—On the11th November, at about 3 P.M., the schooner Jane and Ellen, Nefyn, which had parted from her anchors, was observed to show a signal of distress, having struck on a bank at the mouth of the river Soch, during a heavy gale...

North-West of England.

A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers was held at Southport on the 10th April.

The Mayor and Mayoress of Southport (Councillor and Mrs. John Brook) welcomed the delegates, and the chair...

Trawler listing THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Plymouth lifeboat station was advised by HM Coastguard at 1030 on Wednesday February 15 that the fishing vessel Elly Gerda, ten miles south west of Rame Head, had taken water indeteriorating...

Retirement from the Post of Chief Inspector.

ON 14th August Captain Howard F. J.

Rowley, C.B.E., E.N., to the great regret of the Committee of Manage- ment and the officers and staff of the Institution,...

The Institution deeply regrets the loss of the following former coxswains of life-boats in recent months in addition to others whose deaths have already been recorded in the Life-boat: Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain...