LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 14th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W., a vessel was seen making for Wex- ford Harbour with ensign flying half-mast high. At the entrance of the harbour the vessel missed stays, and her only remain- ing anchor was let go;...

RAMSGATE.—On the 29th March, during strong gale from the E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the barge Star of Peace, of London, was observed in a dangerous position riding at anchor in Pegwell Bay, all her sails having been blown away. The...

BROADSTAIRS.—At 6 A.M. on the 18th Sept., when it was blowing hard from the N.E., in reply to signals of distress exhibited from the North Sand Head lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, and standing off under sail,...

NOVEMBER 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.15 in the afternoon the police reported that a parachute had come down in the sea off The Commons, Donaghadee, and at 12.45 the Belgian motor life-boat Ministre Anseele, on temporary duty at the...

MAY 17TH. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.

At 8.30 A.M. the coxswain received information from the Pembrey coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties on the Cefn Sidan Sands, and at 9.25 A.M. the motor life-boat William...

THOSE who were in London during the centenary celebrations of the Institution in July, 1924, will remember seeing on the Thames the Dutch Twin-screw Motor Life-boat Brandaris, which is just two inches longer than our largest type—the 60-foot...

Peterhead.—At 2 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd April Coxswain Cameron received a telephone message from the Coastguards stating that some vessels were firing rockets and burning flares in South Bay for assistance as they were in...

MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...