LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walmer, Ken*.—At 5.50 P.M. on the * 19th October, 1939, eight hours after the life-boat had brought back the doctor from the Dutch steamer Mirza, a message was received from the doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 20th of August, 1957, the Cromer coastguard reported that a vessel, which had broken down near Blakeney Bell buoy, was firing rockets and flying a distress signal. At 11.35 the life-boat...

Flam borough, Yorkshire.—As the coble Ocean Gift was out fishing, and a strong north-east wind was rising, accompanied by a growing sea, the life-boat Howard D was launched at 7.55 on the morning of the 30th September, 1949. The...

Minehead, Somerset. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1952, the police reported that a thirteen- year-old boy, who had run away from his home at Uphill and had taken a twelve-feet dinghy, had been seen by an aeroplane between six...

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—On the morning of the. 18th February the coastguard reported that the motor trawler Princess Charming, of Grimsby, which was off Holborn Head, was in need of immediate help. She was fishing out of Scrabster, and her...

On the 9th February, the brig New Draper, of Whitehaven, lost her sails in a heavy gale, and was driven ashore near Wicklow harbour. The life- boat stationed there was quickly launched, and succeeded in taking off her crew, 8 in number, and...

Kilmore, Wexford.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of Monday the 17th of July, 1950, signal flares were observed on the Great Saltee Island. A bird watcher with his wife and two children aged eight and two were known to be on the island...

DURING the last few months several addi- tional life-boat stations have been formed along our coasts, and some old boats replaced by others on an improved construction.

This is an important work, which we hope to see...