LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AMONGST the many noble deeds of heroism by our Life-boats' crews and others during the recent fearful gale, perhaps none is more deserving of being held up for public admiration and sympathy than that of the Captain of the s.s. Cyprian,...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...

Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.

Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...

Walmer, Kent.—At 5.18 A.M. on the 18th January, 1939, a message was received from the Deal coastguard that flares had been seen about six miles south-east from Ramsgate. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of rain....

MOTOR BOAT OVERDUE Selsey, Sussex. At 6.40 p.m. on 24th January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor boat with three men on board was overdue at Littlehampton. Mr. Andrews, a member of the Inshore Rescue Scheme, had...

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...

Two life-boats were named in Scotland in July, 1950, at St. Abbs and Buckie.

They are both gifts from Glasgow.

St. Abbs The new St. Abbs boat has been built out of a legacy from the late...

Earl Howe, who died on 26th July, 1964, at the age of 80, was actively associated with the Royal National Life-boat Institution for 45 years. He first joined the Committee of Management in 1919 and was elected a Vice-President in...