LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At about four o’clock in the afternoon the coastguard informed the Eastbourne life-boat station that a U.S.A.

Liberator aeroplane had come down in the sea off Pevensey Bay....

LYDD, KENT.—The David Hulett Lifeboat put off at 4.30 A.M. on the 2nd March to the assistance of the brigantine Concordia, of Guernsey, which had stranded on the sands about half a mile from the boathouse, and was showing signals of distress...

During the morning of the 2nd February a moderate N. breeze was blowing with a very heavy sea running. Several return- ing fishing boats only succeeded in landing at great risk, and two were nearly capsized. The No. 1 Pulling and Sailing...

JULY 9TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. An object, which looked like a raft with someone on board, was reported, but only a buoy was found. - Rewards, £13 9s. 6d..

FISHGUARD.—On the 15th of September this place was visited by a very strong gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea. The smack Catherine, of Cardigan, bound thence to Swansea, in ballast, and the brigantine Osnabrick, of Papenberg,...

Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...

• The Sea, Thine Enemy by Captain Kenneth Langmaid, D.S.C., R.N. (Jarrolds, 355.) is in fact a comprehensive survey of coastal lights and life-boat service.

This is undoubtedly a book which may be read with profit and...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 2.55 A.M.

on the 25th August, 1938, the harbourmaster reported rockets near Black Rock Buoy in the Solent. The night was fine and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat S.G.E. put out at 3.17 A.M.,...