LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—15th July.

A sailing boat had capsized in a moderate N.W. gale. A French destroyer picked up one man, and the other man on board could not be found.— Rewards, £9 6s..

Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the Liberian tanker Cnosa about twenty miles south-east of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse. At three o'clock...

Cromer, Norfolk. At 1.55 early on the morning of the 8th March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the collier Corstar was mak- ing for Cromer with a sick man aboard and that a doctor was needed. There was a light...

Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.13 on the evening of the 7th December, 1961, the motor mechanic passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the coastguard at Orlock. This was that the motor vessel Durhambrook of London had asked for the...

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...

Three anglers were about a mile out to sea in a 5m pleasureboat in Hartlepool Bay on Sunday 21 September. With their fishing rods poised for a bite, they were hoping for a good catch.

But their mood changed when the wind...

Bravery endures Thank you for the autumn issue of the magazine.

The article on Henry Shrimp Davies was of great interest to me: my brother was a crew member of the SS English Trader on that fateful night and at the age of...