LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was in- formed by Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead had fouled her propeller and needed help. When the life-boat Peter and...

During a strong 8.E. gale on the 30th December signals of distress were made by the schooner T. H. Harrow, of Lancaster, which was lying at anchor about one mile east of : the Queen's Pier. The Life-boat Mary Isabella at once responded,...

.—Six of the cobles belonging to Staithes were en- dangered on the 22nd January when off Saltburn by a sudden gale, and at about 10 o'clock in the morning the Life-boat Mary Batger was launched. She re- mained afloat for about three...

Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the life-boat coxswain reported that two men were in diffi- culties in a rowing boat. They had anchored two miles east of Lytham pier and were flying a...

The new Eastbourne life-boat Vincent Nesfield, which is a 37-foot Oakley, was named by Esmond Knight, the actor, at Eastbourne on 9th April, 1969, the boat having been provided from the proceeds of the Joyce Giddins Fund and legacies left by...

MONTBOSE.— The smack London, of Jersey, was in great danger at 1.30 P.M.

on the 18th March, having steered too far north while making for Montrose. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, having been launched, took up a position...

JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. — On the 12th January, the sea being rough and a strong breeze blowing from the S.E., it was feared that the fishing-boats would encounter difficulty in making the harbour, and it was therefore decided totake out...

IN the last number of The Life-boat in the account of the service by the Walton and Frinton life-beat to the London barge Esterel, the date of the service was given as 4th November, 1939.

It sheuld have been 14th...