LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 5th March, during a very heavy gale from the S.S.E., and an exceedingly heavy sea, accompanied by a snowstorm, the schooner Agnes, of Llanelly, bound thence to Newcastle, while running for Montrose Harbour, went ashore...

Anstruther, Fifeshire. —• During the morning of the 19th December, 1938, it was learned that the boatman who took stores to May Island had been unable, owing to bad weather, to make the trip for five days, and that the twenty-eight people on...

On the morning of the 20th February, the motor fishing boat Consort, of Girvan, was seen lying at anchor about five hundred yards north of the harbour. A mod- erate S.S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. A watch was kept on the boat, and...

DOVER.—In the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed, at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat was constructed by Mr.

CLARKSON, of a material which he has patented, composed of...

• The history of Britain's Coastguard is an extraordinarily colourful one, and it is surprising that hitherto no full history of the service has been published.

The deficiency has now been made good by William Webb in...

St. David's, and Angle, Pembroke- shire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the St. David's coastguard telephoned the St. David's life-boat station that red flares had been seen eight miles north-west by north of...

EASTNEY, HAMPSHIRE, ILB crew were alerted at 0315 on September 7, 1974, when the honorary secretary was informed by Shoreham Coastguard that red flares had been seen in the vicinity of Langstone Channel. ILB D184 was launched at 0343, by...

When Farnham, Surrey, staged a radio and television show for three days in October, 1966, English Rose HI was exhibited and attracted a great deal of interest.

The expenses of the show, which was arranged by Lloyd &...