LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At about 11 A.M. on the 13th February, J. Crawford, the Second Coxswain of the Lifeboat Queensbury, received information that two cobles were in difficulties about four miles off Scarborough, and as the sea was very rough and becoming worse...

GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.—While a gale was blowing from the N.W., with a very rough sea on the morning of the 17th November, the smack Prosperity, of Carnarvon, was seen in the offing labouring against the wind, and shortly afterwards she showed a...

Mr. Charles Stacey Hall, F.C.I.S., for twenty-eight years Assistant Town Clerk to the Bournemouth Corporation, who died on 14th August, at the age of sixty-four, had been for thirty- three years associated with the Institu- tion's work...

Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 16th of April, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a dinghy with two boys on board was drifting out to sea off Rhoscolyn Island. At 12.10 the life-boat St.

Cybi,...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 11.18 on the night of the 10th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground off St.

Combs, but at 11.50 she was seen to be under way. At midnight she...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.17 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a sailing dinghy, with two boys on board, had capsized in Portland harbour, about a quarter of a mile off Sandsfoot Castle,...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the New Romney police telephoned that a lady at Littlestone had reported that a sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, was being blown seawards off Littlestone. At...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.12 on the morning of the 25th of April, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Neula, an ex-R.N.L.I.

life-boat formerly stationed at Aber- ystwyth, was flying a distress...