LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant about three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John...

By Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N., Deputy-Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

Broadcast by Sir Gerald du Maurier and Miss Mabel Terry-Lewis.

[This duologue was broadcast by the British Broadcasting...

1st January Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.

CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge and Whist Drive. Address by the Assistant District Organizing Secretary.<...

Margate, Kent.—At 9.45 in the morn- ing of the 27th of February, 1949, the coastguard reported that a yacht, three miles to the north-eastwards, was drifting rapidly towards the shore. A strong west-north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea...

TYRELLA, DUNDRUM BAT, IRELAND.— During a whole gale of wind from S.S.E., on the 6th December, 1865, a schooner was seen endeavouring to beat out of Dundrum Bay. Owing to the heavy gale and the tremendous sea running, she failed in doing so,...

Belfast Lough.

i The Annual Meeting, which was | largely attended, was held on 16th January, the chair being taken by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Coates, Bt., D.L. The financial statement for the...

Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...

Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.

September Meeting.

Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk.— A three-masted schooner, the Six Sisters, of Hull, was anchored...