LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RAMSGATE.—On the 2nd January, 1894, a message by telephone was received requesting that the Life-boat and tug might be sent to a vessel in danger. The steamtug Aid, with, the Life-boat Bradford in tow, left the harbour at 10.30 P.M. and...

NOVEMBER 5TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.

A steamer went ashore on Lady Rock in the Firth of Lorne, but was helped by tugs. - Rewards, £19 15s. 6d..

Southend'on-Sea, Essex.—12th December, 1937. A sailing barge had struck a sunken wreck off Low Way Buoy and sank, but her crew had already left her when the life-boat arrived.—Rewards, £19 10*..

Sunderland, Durham.—At nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of January, 1949, when a light north-easterly wind was blowing, with a slight swell, the Dutch motor vessel Beta was reported by the coastguard to be signalling "not under...

The German steamer Marie Leonhardt, of Hamburg, whilst bound from Scotland to Genoa with a cargo of coal, stranded on the Goodwin Sands, during a strong E.S.E.

gale and a very heavy sea, on the 17th January. Signals of...

Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 255 Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 257 _ _ i VT T T Revision of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: V OlUrFie -/V-Ll V an introduction to an introduction, by...

Motor Boats and Motor Boating by Hilary and K. J. Wickham (Stanley Paul, 255) can be recommended as a clearly written and sensible guide to those who are planning to take to the water for their own pleasure. The book is directed to beginners...

A MEMORIAL service, conducted by the Rev. Norman Ncsbit Faid, assisted by Provost J. K. Moir, was held in St. John's Methodist Church, Arbroath, on the 20th of February, 1955, to com- memorate the six members of the crew of the Arbroath...