LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early in the morning of February 19th, 1947, two fishing boats, the Pilot Me and the Gem, put to sea in moderate weather. Later the sea became heavy, making it very dangerous for boats to enter...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—When the life- boat reached harbour at 8.15 on the morning of the 7th of May, 1949, with the fishing-boat Prosperity and the yacht Red Rover, she was told by the coastguard that three other local fishing boats were...

Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling, Norfolk, who died on 25th February, at the age of eighty-five, joined the Palling Life-boat Crew at the age of eighteen.

Six years later, in 1870, he was appointed Coxswain, and served...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—29th August, 1939. Guns had been heard in a fog, but the life-boat could find nothing. It was learnt later that a steam drifter had been sunk in a collision, but the crew had been...

Margate, Kent. At 9.21 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen in the direction of Margate Sands five miles north-west of Margate. The coxswain had also seen these flares,...

Mr. C. B. Stoddart, who died last December, had for sixteen years been Honorary Secretary of the Cardiff and Penarth Branch. He was a well-known and very popular figure in Cardiff, being the represei tive there of the Bowring Shipping...

CLUNG TO WRECKAGE Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.

At 2.58 a.m. on 23rd October, 1963, the coastguard at St. Just was informed by Land's End radio that a Spanish vessel had gone aground near Mount's...

BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....