LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 7.42 p.m. on loth April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ormsby Queen had an injured man on board. At 10.35 the trawler requested the help of the life-boat to convey the man...

WINTERTON.—Shortly after 5 o'clock on the evening of the 12th March, the cutter rigged shrimping-boat Adeline, of Great Yarmouth, was observed to ship a sea, when about half a mile S.E. of Winterton, and to instantly founder. An alarm...

Moelfre, Anglesey. — About 8.30 in the morning of the 26th of July, 1949, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a man was adrift in a dinghy one mile east of Point Lynas, and at 8.45 the life-boat G.W. was launched, in a light...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of Decem- ber, 1955, information was receivedfrom the coastguard that the steam trawler Red Dragon, of Fleetwood, had reported that she would be calling at Ramsey about...

Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1956, the local Superintendent of Trinity House rang up to say that a man on the Cross Sand lightvessel had been badly injured. He asked if the life-boat would take him ashore,...

Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the night of the 16th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say the motor vessel Spontaneity, on passage to Yarmouth, had reported that one of her crew was sick. She was ex- pected to arrive off Whitby in...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 28 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1938 .... 65,849

Grace Darling...

As iron ship-building has been most suc- cessfully practised in this country for several years past, and as we possess superior ad- vantages over all other countries for the manufacture of that metal, it is surely matter for surprise that we...