LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Outboard failed A SMALL BOAT which had fired a hand flare off Crackington Haven was reported to the honorary secretary of Bude lifeboat station by Hartland Coastguard at 1500 on Saturday May 29. Maroons were fired and at 1505 the D class...

HAETLEPOOI.— On the otfa December the schooner Anapira, of Newburgfa, was observed about seven miles E.N.E. of Hartlepool. At the time a, most severe gale was raging, accompanied by sleet showers and a heavy sea. At 2.30 she was seen to put...

The Institution's income was the largest it has ever been. It was £356,320.

That was £72,168 more than in 1939, and this splendid increase was almost entirely due to the increase of £63,749 in...

THE advantages of the Motor Life-boat over the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat are obvious in speed, in range oi action, in power to travel in the face of a gale, and, above all, in manoeuvring power at the critical moments when the Life-boat...

TEIGNMOUTH.—At about 2 P.M. on the 14th April a vessel was seen running for the harbour whilst a strong E.S.B. wind was blowing and a heavy sea breaking on the bar. In trying to cross the bar she stranded in a dangerous position in the...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 6.22 in the evening of the 12th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing vessel Felicity was over- due. At 8 o'clock he reported that she could be seen broken down two miles...

Stronsay, Orkneys. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of November, 1958, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a man was seriously ill and needed immediate treatment in hospital. As there was no other suitable boat available,...

CULLERCOATS.—On the llth January, 1893, twenty-five cobles went out fishing, but as a strong N.E. gale sprung up accompanied by a rough sea they were compelled to return to port. Seventeen of them arrived safely in the harbour, but by the...