LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.3 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1952, the Wallasey police telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the river Mersey off Egremont, and that two people were in the water. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...

Tow across the bar THE HARBOUR MASTER at Soilthwold, Roger Trigg, who is also senior helmsman of the town's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, The Quiver, was contacted by the fishing vessel Blyth Spirit on the evening of Thursday...

GRIMSBY-.—On the 6th March, at 2.30 P.M., the schooner Mary Coad, of Port Isaac, Cornwall, bound from Antwerp to Middlesbrough, was observed flying a signal of distress in the main rigging. She was riding in the Humber about half-amile N.N.W...

Dungeness, Kent. At 9.8 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed thata vessel was firing red flares a mile and a half west-south-west of Dungeness.

The crew assembled, but as...

Margate, Kent. — At 3.24 in the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had anchored three hundred yards off Reculver near the Black Rock, but that she had not made any distress signals. A motor boat...

APRIL 25TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.39 in the morning the naval authorities at Dover asked, through the coastguard, that the life-boat should be launched to an aeroplane north-east of the South Foreland. A moderate north-west wind was blowing,...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Foreland coastguard reported that a yacht was making distress sig- nals off St. Helen's Fort. The life- boat Jesse Lumb, which had just returned from an...

IN 1901 the Institution stationed at Queenstown, on the south coast of Ireland, a pulling and sailing life-boat of the Watson type, 43 feet long, 12 feet 6 inches in beam, with a draught of 37f inches. She was named James Stevens No. 20, and...