LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A Notes of the Quarter (47 Contents Lifeboat Services 149 Vollime XT VTT Lifeboat Services, September, October and November, 1980 154 N Umber 475 Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part III: plated up 155 Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919,...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer. He became a member of the Cromer crew in January, 1894, at the age of eighteen.

In 1902 he was appointed second cox- swain, and in 1909 coxswain. In 1917...

Two fishing cobles put to sea from Filey at 4 A.M. on the 15th November, but became separated in the darkness. One of them returned at 9.30 A.M. and re- ported that the other, the Heather, carrying a crew of three, had not been seen for some...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — On the morning of the 31st of August, 1952, it was reported that a small yacht had capsized between Black Rock Buoy and Hurst Point, and at 11.35 the life-boat S.G.E. left her moorings. The sea was rough, with a...

AUG. 11TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.

At about 4 P.M. the second coxswain of the life-boat reported that the motor fishing boat Dunluce, of Portrush, with a crew of four on board, was in need of help off Curran...

Hand-held & Tripod-mounted BINOCULARS & TELESCOPES Since the turn of the century, Charles Frank Ltd.

have specialised in Binoculars and Telescopes, and the instruments which we manufacture in our Glasgow factory are...

IT comes daily from all parts of the British Isles, and not a week passes without bringing some gift from over- seas. It comes in all forms, from cheques and postal orders, to boxes of coins and packets of foreign stamps for the Institution...

Brothers and stations uniteWhen Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...