LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TWICE AGROUND Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 3.20 in the morning of the 10th of November, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Sodality, of London, had been in collision with No.

39 Buoy near the Sunk...

PLYMOUTH and YEALM RIVER.—On the night of the 28th of January the Plymouth Life-boat Clemency and the Yealm River Life-boat Bowman went out in reply to signals of distress shown by the barque Wellington, of Windsor, N.S. The wind was blowing...

The honorary secretary of one of the Institution's branches in the Midlands writes that he has had difficulty in getting helpers for the work of the branch, but he adds : " Fortunately I am lucky in this respect, as I have been...

Coxswain Desmond Cox of Appledore gives an unconvincing display of culinary know-how in the bow of the station's Atlantic 21. It was all part of the ladies' guild's successful attempt to draw attention to their new cookery book... - View image in PDF

The motor fishing boat Fife's Own put to sea on the night of the 16th July for long line fishing. The weather changed, and by noon next day a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain.

A watch was kept...

At ii p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, a message was received by the honorary secretary that a sick man needed to be landed from the German motor vessel Clipper at approx. 4.15 a.m. The life-boat Solomon Browne launched at 3.10 proceeded to Newlyn...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.52 on the night of the 7th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Mayflower, which had gone with a crew of five, to SuUskcr Rock for Solan-geese, was overdue. A...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.

The card will have a reproduction on it in colours of the picture above. It is an old painting, recently presented to the Institution, of Grace...