LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE eighth International Life-boat Conference took place in Bremen from the 23rd to the 25th of June, 1959. The hosts were the German life-boat society, Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger.

Delegates from...

BALLANTRAE.—The fishingboat J. W. R., of this port, was seen to have lost halyards and mast, which had been broken by the violence of the gale, on the 30th December,! and it being impossible for the crew to run her ashore, the Life-boat...

LOOE, CORNWALL.—On the 29th August the Life-boat Oxfordshire was launched, and rescued one of the crew of the ketch Lion, of Exeter, which had sprung a leak and had capsized about five miles S.E. of Looe, during a strong S.S.W. wind. The...

On the same day a gallant rescue wasperformed on the Yorkshire coast.

week before, the Belgian steamer cesse Clementine had gone ashore off Staithes. Her crew of nineteen were rescued by the Runswick Life-boat, but her...

On the 18th March the east wind increased, bringing with it a rough sea, which during the afternoon became dangerous for the cobles when returning to harbour.

The Life-boat Queensbury was launched at 3.10 P.M. and stood by...

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 27th of March, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the weather was deteriorating and that five fishing cobles were at sea.

At 10.37 the life-boat The Cuttle was...

Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...

HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, named the new Berwick-upon-Tweed life-boat William and Mary Durham on the 25th of July, 1957. The ceremony took place at Spittal harbour.