LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 15TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 4.5 in the afternoon a message was received from the Tynemouth coastguard that bathers were in difficulties at Sharpness Point, Tynemouth. A fresh north-east wind was blowing,...

Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …

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22nd February. A steamer had been re- ported ashore on the Sunk Sands, but must have got off and gone on her way, as she could not be found.—Re- wards, £26 15s. 6d..

APRIL 25TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. The French steamer Benerau Mitznigr, of Marseilles, had been in collision, but she was able to go on her way without help.- Rewards, £5 8s. 6d..

FEBRUARY 23RD. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but later it was learned that she had crashed on land.- Rewards, £24 5s. 6d.

BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...

Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 27th September, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind. At 7.5 A.M., the motor...

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fourteenth time. The number of schools taking part was 2,501, an in- crease on last year of 294.

Of this...