LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal,...

At 8.30 A.M.

on the llth October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was flying signals of distress off Saltdean. The Michael Henry motor Life-boat was at once launched and proceeded to the spot; she found the brigantine...

At 5.10 P.M. on the 22nd February, during a W.N.W.

hurricane, the schooner Lord March, of Whitstable, was observed about five miles to the north of Palling, flying signals of distress. With all speed the crew of the No. 2...

On the llth December, during a moderate south- west gale with a heavy sea, the coast- guard reported that a vessel was burning flares opposite the Life-boat station.

The Life-boat John Burch was launched, and, on arrival,...

.—The small motor fishing boat John and George, of Lowestoft, was fishing half a mile south- east of the Coastguard lookout on the morning of 7th April when her engine failed and her net fouled the propeller.

A moderate...

Troon, Ayrshire.—Early on the 21st of February, 1949, H.M.S. Puncher, a naval landing ship with a crew of eighteen, left Troon for Port Glasgow, in tow of two tugs. A south-westerly gale got up, with a very heavy sea, and the Puncher snapped...

Mr. Norman Clark Neill, who died in March, at the age of fifty-two, was appointed a member of the committee of management in November, 1933, and served on the boat committee and construction committee. He brought to the work of the...

At 5.12 P.M. on the 14th May the coast- guard at Seaton Sluice telephoned that a steam trawler was flying " not under control " signals about five miles east of the station. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the...