LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Portaskaig, Islay.—During the morning of the llth March the mail steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow, left Portaskaig for West Loch Tarbert. She had mail and twenty-two persons on board. When she was about eight miles east of Macarthur's Head...

Swanage, Dorset.—At 4.30 A.M. on the 4th July the coastguard reported that a vessel five miles west of Portland Bill was firing rockets. A strong breeze to moderate gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat...

Padstow, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 19th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a boat near Stepper Point in a dangerous position. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. Flares of distress were seen later and...

Newhaven, Sussex. — At 6.55 in the evening, on the 17th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht about two miles to westward and a mile off shore, was drifting eastwards.

She seemed to be out of control....

Hand over Hand Chanty.

BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.

" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...

THE Institution has received a leather cushion which has been specially made for it by an engineer in the Sudan government dockyard at Khartoum, Mr. R. C. Roberts, of Broughton-in- Furness. The cushion, which has been made in imitation of...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—The No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beawlerk was launched at 2.58 P.M. on the 21st August, as the coastguard had reported that a yacht about three-quarters of a mile S.E.

of Orford was signalling for help. A...

Early on the morning of the 27th September the Belhelvie coastguards reported that a vessel ashore one mile north of the watch-house was making distress signals. A moderate S.S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea....