LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE forty-first anniversary of this ad- mirable society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, on the 27th May, under the presidency of Admiral Sir ALEXANDER MILNE, G.C.B., Vice- President.

Amongst those...

CAn event interesting to many in the shipping world took place on the 5th of October in the presence of the Com- mittee of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping Society. The whole of their extensive staff of Surveyors, in this...

Penlee, Cornwall.—At 6.25 on the night of the 27th of January, 1951, the Penzer Point coastguard telephoned that the commander of the cable- laying ship Ariel, half a mile off Newlyn Pier, was sick. Two doctors were on board. The coastguard...

When a catamaran capsized on 15th July the Margate, Kent, life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) went out in a north westerly gale with a very rough sea.

At about 11.30 a.m. the Trinity House cutter Penlee reported...

A box of Arbroath smokeys for HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, from Coxswain Douglas Matthewson. It is at Arbroath that the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed.. - View image in PDF

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.—24th November, 1938. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she had made a safe landing. The pilot sent a letter of thanks.—Rewards: Portpatrick, £10 8s. 6d.; Donaghadee,...

FATAL CLIFF FALL At 2.20 p.m. on ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a police report that a man had fallen over the cliff between The Needles and Freshwater Bay. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left at...

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.

—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...