LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

South Eastern District.

CONFERENCES of Life-boat Workers in the South Eastern District were held at St. Leonards-on-Sea (for Branches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent.

Surrey and Sussex) on 4th and 5th...

At 7.30 P.M. on the 31st March the cox- swain of the Life-boat Queen Victoria saw the trawler Mint, of Brixham, run ashore on the White Ledge. He at once put off in a boat to see if it were possible to get her off, but the westerly wind...

Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 9.2 on the evening of the 6th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men were marooned on Black Rock and were in danger of being carried out to sea. At 9.16 the life-boat Lady Scott...

Minehead's new D class lifeboat, George and Christine, was named during a ceremony held outside the boathouse on 10 October 1999.

The new lifeboat, funded by George Stnbling of Axminster, replaced the previous D class...

WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...

Harwich, Essex - At 2.43 p.m. on 30th May, 1966, a small sailing dinghy was reported to have capsized one mile off Dovercourt beach. The IRB launched at 2.48 in a moderate east north easterly breeze and moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. The...

MARCH 16TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 10. 40 P .M. n e w s was received from the civic guard at Carne that a vessel was in distress off Carne Pier.

At 11.10 P.M. the motor life-boat B.A.S.P., on temporary duty at...

GILES' QUAY (DUNDALK), Co. LOUTH.

—At about 11 o'clock on the same morning (9th February), the brigantine Andover, of Dublin, which had lost her mainsail and had become unmanageable, stranded about one mile from...