LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COLONEL J. T. Benn, O.B.E., has been appointed District Organising Secretary for the Midlands in place of Wing Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., who recently resigned. Colonel Benn was commissioned from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,...

Whitby, Yorkshire. — Shortly after nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th of November, 1950, while the Whitby fishing fleet was at sea, it was reported that a strong northerly gale had developed, causing a heavy swell.

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.24 in the morning of the 10th of April, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a boat drifting to the north-east, and at •2.40 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a...

BAD WEATHER CLIFF RESCUE WHEN, on 8th February, 1972, Mr J. J. Adams, honorary secretary, Hastings, Sussex, was told by the police at about 2.15 p.m. that a man had fallen over the cliff to the east of the harbour at a point known as...

Among the many movements to which the philanthropic spirit of the age has given birth, few are entitled to a larger share of public sympathy and support than such as have for their object the well-being and im- provement of those classes...

JUTTING OUT boldly into the Irish Sea, open to winter gales from most points of the compass, the beautiful Lleyn Peninsula of North Wales has its share of hazards to shipping. Over the years many vessels have been wrecked on its shores and...

Informa- tion having been received on the llth October that a vessel was ashore on the West Hoyle Bank, steps were taken to verify it, and at 5.35 P.M. signals were fired for the Life-boat. With all despatch the H. 0. Powell was launched and...

MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...