LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 26TH. - GALWAY BAY. A t 5.30 A.M. the local doctor asked that thelife-boat should take a boy to Galway for an immediate operation. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing and the sea was calm. All the local boats were away fishing. The motor...

— About 4 A..M. on the 26th Jan., at which time it was blowing a gale from S.E., a pilot cutter discovered the wreck of the three-masted schooner No. 4, of j Arundel, on the Abertay Sands ; she there- \ upon bore up to communicate with the j...

The steamer Va la, of Grangemouth, whilst bound from Valencia to Hull with a cargo of oranges, was weather-bound off Gorleston on the 21st February. Being short of provisions they sent off a boat containing five men to procure some, but in...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had anchored off the East pier, but that the anchor was dragging. The yacht signalled for help, and at 4.35 the life-boat...

IN "Obituary of the Years of War, 1939-1945," "in the last issue of The Life-boat, there should have appeared two other names, John Herbert Bolton and Thomas Valentine Bennett.

Mr. Bolton joined the staff of...

Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 25th of March, 1948, information was received from Dyffryn that two men had landed in a dinghy from the French fishing vessel Va-Sans-Peur, of Concarneau, bound for Liverpool, and had...

Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the morning of the 16th of March, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard reported a message from McArthur's Head Lightr house that a vessel was flashing S.O.S.

signals one mile from the...

MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.

He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...