LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 24TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A fire or flares had been reported at sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £20 16s..

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the llth of April, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the assistant honorary secretary and coxs- wain a message received from the Galloper lightvessel that an auxiliary cutter was "...

A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.* ["A curious and interesting coincidence has been communicated to me by Capt. McK-ERLiE, of the Coastguard, Stranraer. The Edinburgh life-boat, it may be remembered, was exhibited in Glasgow on the 16th Dec.,...

WITHERNSEA.—The s.s. Maja, of Copenhagen, having stranded about two miles N. of the pier at Withernsea on the 7th January, the Life-boat Admiral Sous proceeded to her assistance at 6.15 A.M.

The wind was blowing from the...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 4.15 a.m. on I2th March, 1967, an expectant mother had to be taken to hospital at South Uist. The life-boat R. A.

Colby Cubbin No. 3 proceeded at 4.50 in a strong gusting to gale force...

WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...

THE want having been often felt of some general system of signals for intercommu- nication, on occasions of shipwreck, between life-boat stations when within signal distance of each other, the Committee have caused the following simple plan...

Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...