LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the obituary notice of the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was stated that his last public appearance on behalf of the Institution was at the inaugural ceremony of the Boulmer motor...

JULY 21ST. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 6.14 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some ten miles or more to the S.E. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.27 P.M., and...

The paddle steamer Whippingham, of South- ampton, while on a pleasure trip from Ryde to Bournemouth on the afternoon of the 5th September, was in difficulties through a defect in the paddle wheels and began to leak, when about six miles...

CREW FOUND LATER At 2 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the skipper of the Yarmouth to Lymington ferry told the honorary secretary that he had seen a capsized dinghy about one mile west of Lymington river. There was a strong south-westerly breeze...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—29th August, 1939. Guns had been heard in a fog, but the life-boat could find nothing. It was learnt later that a steam drifter had been sunk in a collision, but the crew had been...

Dover, Kent.—At 5.45 P.M. on the 16th August, 1938, a resident of East Cliff reported a yacht to be in difficulties and drifting to leeward with all her sails blown away. The sea was rough, with a moderate S.VV. gale...

TWO CASUALTIES TAKEN OFF TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 5th May, 1962, the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could be launched later in the day to bring a sick man and an injured man ashore...

Mr. Edmund J. Bluett, who died on llth January last, was Honorary Secre- tary of the Scilly Islands Branch for thirty-six years. He was appointed in May, 1882, and retired in September, 1918. During those thirty-six years the Life-boats...