LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 8.50 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1951, the Civic Guards in Clontarf reported that the boat Grainne had left Clontarfon the previous day, but had not been heard of since. They thought that she might be in some...

On the afternoon of the 22nd August fourteen local fishing cobles were at sea outside the harbour entrance. A moderate N.E.

breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough and breaking owing to a very strong outflow from the...

Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.49 on the morning of the 5th of February, 1961, the harbour master at Irvine informed the coxswain that two men were stranded on a beacon at the entrance to Irvine harbour. In the absence of the honorary secretary the...

• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...

WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were shown by the steam-tug Erin, of Wexford, at 5.30 P.M., on the 8th March. The Ethel Eveleen Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found that her engines had broken down, and that she was in a very...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht anchored half a mile south-east of the pier needed help, and at 2.5 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The...

Margate, Kent.—At 12.42 on the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had run ashore on the Hook Sands.

At 12.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was...

EVERYBODY is complaining that trade and business are bad, and that as a result any effort to raise money for charitable purposes requires an operation similar to that time-honoured one of extracting "blood from a stone" ! It is sad...