LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, Humphrey Lestocq, was at the first floor window of his home on the afternoon of Friday August 27, 1982, watching the flight of a red Tiger Moth fitted with floats, a familiar sight in...

Flam borough, Yorkshire.—As the coble Ocean Gift was out fishing, and a strong north-east wind was rising, accompanied by a growing sea, the life-boat Howard D was launched at 7.55 on the morning of the 30th September, 1949. The...

NEWBIGGIN. — During a gale of wind from the S.E., and a heavy sea, on the 29th May, the coble George and Margaret, of Newbiggin, while making for the shore was struck by a high sea, and at once foundered, about half a mile E. of Church Point...

At 12.42 a.m. on 22nd April, 1967, it was reported that a yacht had been seen firing distress flares near the Shingles Bank. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched at 12.58 in a moderate north westerly breeze and a slight...

FORMBY.—On the morning of the 22nd February the coxswain of the Life-boat received a message by cable stating that a vessel was aground on the Great Burbo Bank. The crew of the Life-boat John and Henrietta were at once summoned, and at 9.25...

MAY 26TH. GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 P.M.

a message was received from the Caister alert station that two naval speed boats had gone aground on the Scroby Sand. A light S.S.E.

breeze...

An E.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up on the 28th March while the small herring coble Thankful Arthur, of Filey, was at sea, and as the heavy sea showed every sign of increasing, the Life-boat Queens- bury was launched to her assistance, and...

IN addition to Mr. Hargood, whose death is recorded on the opposite page, the Committee of Management have recently lost two valued colleagues by the deaths of Sir William Priestley, a Vice-President of the Institution and Chairman of the...