LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Early on the morning of the 1st July the coast- guard telephoned that a small fishing boat, which had put out on the previous evening, had not returned to harbour.

She carried a crew of four. The sea was smooth, but there...

Swanage, Dorset. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 31st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a helicopter had seen a yacht flying a red flag five miles south-south-west of Anvil Point. A fishing...

Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.

He retired in 1920 on account...

The following retired coxswains have died: Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas served continuously in life-boats from 1919 until his retirement in March, 1967, the last 1 years as coxswain of the Sennen Cove, Cornwall, lifeboat.

Mr...

CREW FOUND LATER At 2 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the skipper of the Yarmouth to Lymington ferry told the honorary secretary that he had seen a capsized dinghy about one mile west of Lymington river. There was a strong south-westerly breeze...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat Hearts of OaJc was launched at 12.7 p.m.

on the 17th March, signal guns having been heard in the direction of the Hasborough Sands apparently fired from the Would Light-Vessel. A dense fog...

MUHBSSI.BT, NOBTOLK. — At 5.80 A.M.

on the 28th November, the Life-boat J. B. Elliot was launched to the aid of the barque JEmWs, of Stavanger, bound from Christiansund for Cardiff with a cargo of timber, which had stranded...

Sheringham, Norfolk. — Two local fishing boats put to sea at 3 A.M. on the 7th August. At 9 A.M. the sea became rough, a fog settled, and a strong N.

breeze sprang up. The new motor lifeboat Foresters Centenary was launched...