LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which...

FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...

Filey, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1950, some fishing cobles of Filey were at sea.

Because of the freshening north-westerly wind and mounting seas it was decided to launch the life-boat, and at 1.36...

Ilfracombe, North Devon.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1956, Lloyds agent at Lynmouth reported to the coxswain that the small motor boat Jane, of Ilfracombe, was drifting with the tide off Lynmouth. At 6.50 the life-boat Robert...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat not recognised as a local boat was making for the harbour, and...

Fowey, Cornwall. At 2.45 on the after- noon of the 30th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht was aground on Udder Rock. At 2.55, when the life-boat Deneys Reitz left her moorings, the weather was...

Dover, Kent - At 10.17 P-m- 5tn August, 1966, the brigantine Centurion, returning from the tall ship race to Copenhagen, radioed that one of her crew needed medical attention. At 10.40 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched with a doctor...

INJURED SEAMAN Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on yth June, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a seaman on board the Liberian tanker Olympic Hill required medical attention.

There was a light east-south-easterly breeze...