LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WORK has been in progress for some years to produce a new carriage for transporting life-boats down to the sea at stations where there is no suitable harbour and no means of launching a life-boat down a slipway. For some time the need has...

Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1957, the coxswain of the life-boat reported that a small yacht was burning flares off North Rock. At 4.15 the life-boat Constance Calverley was...

Douglas, Isle of Man. At 10.15 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1957, the harbour master reported that a flare had been seen two and a half miles off Douglas Head. At 10.25 the life- boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 was launched in a...

Plymouth, Devon. At 12.54 on the afternoon of the 18th of October, 1957, a message was received that a naval tender was asking for help in Whitsand Bay and that the tug Superman was being sent. As no further details were known it was decided...

Bridlington, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that there was an injured man on board the steam trawler Rizzio, of Grimsby. At five o'clock the...

Cromer, Norfolk. At 1.51 on the afternoon of the 2nd of February, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a very sick man on board the S.S. Hudson Bank and a doctor was needed. The steamer was expected to be off...

Dunbar, East Lothian. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 19th of March, 1958, a message was received that a fishing boat was in need of help twelve miles east-north-east of Dunbar.

At 10.25 the life-boat...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1958, the coastguard told the hon- orary secretary that a doctor was needed to examine a badly injured member of the crew of the coaster Militence of Rochester, whose...