LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 14TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 5.39 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles away. She was a Lancaster bomber. At 5.52 came another message asking the life-boat to launch, and...

Captain E. S. Carver, who died at Littlehampton on the 12th of December, 1959, at the age of 81, first joined the Institution's staff as Eastern District Inspector in 1919 after service in the first war, in which he had commanded a...

Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.24 on the night of the 19th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was on fire between Fladdabister and Bard Head and that it was thought another fishing vessel was trying to...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 5.10 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a yacht was ashore on the Cardiff sands.

The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 5.15 in a gale force...

RAMSGATE.—On the 13th November, at 3 A.M., during a fresh breeze from the E.N.E., signals were fired from the Gull lightship, in response to which the Bradford Life-boat and steam-tug Aid proceeded to the sands, and found a barque ashore...

On the 28th February the brig Zephyr parted her anchors and drove on the Scroby Sand. The larger Yarmouth life-boat pro- ceeded under sail to the assistance of her crew, whom she succeeded in taking off, and with one exception landed them in...

Mr. A. J. G. Anson, who died on llth January, at the age of seventy-seven, was from the beginning of 1917 until towards the end of 1925 the Honorary Secretary of the Hastings Station, and he retired then on account of serious ill-health. He...

Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two miles north north...