LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.50 ill the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948, a fisherman of Lulworth Cove came ashore and reported that a yacht and its dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Whitenose. Ten minutes later the motor life-boat...

Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).

On 2nd November, 1930, at 10.30 in the morning, the Selsey and Bognor Motor Life-boat was launched, as news had been received that a vessel was in difficulties to the west of Selsey Bill. A W.S.W...

Four boys LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed Flint lifeboat station at 1225 on Sunday April 25, 1982, that four boys were stranded 500 yards off the shore in the River Dee. They had gone to fish from a bank off the Cob at Bagillt and had been cut...

Signals of distress were observed on the 3rd of April, in response to which the David Hulett Life-boat went afloat at 10.30 P.M., and found the barque Queen Victoria, of Dublin, stranded on the Swallow Bank. At the master's request, the...

Margate, Kent.—At about 8.30 A.M.

on the 3rd August the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on Margate Sand west of the North Sand Beacon. The sea was choppy, with a strong westerly wind. At 8.40 A.M.

During a moderate S.S.W. gale and rough sea on the llth December, a message was received, stating that the Roaring Middle Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The Life-boat Licensed Vic- tualler was launched without loss of time and...

Harrow County School, Middlesex, in April got sponsors for ''bar billiards'.

Five boys played billiards continually for 72 hours, thereby breaking the world record for this type of event. At the time it was...

THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...