LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FISHING VESSEL AGROUND IN FOG Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.15 on the evening of Friday the 5th of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that the m.f.v. Wakefield was ashore in dense fog a mile and a half north of...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At about 9.15 A.M.

on the 18th February, 1938, the coastguard reported a smack aground on the Inner Newcombe Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross was away within five minutes. A moderate N.E. by E...

AMONGST the applications for reward from the National Shipwreck Institution, one was recently made for saving the lives of several persons who had been upset in a boat in consequence of one of their number climbing to the mast-head to reeve...

HER MAJESTY'S Consul at Boulogne has addressed a letter to the Earl of Clarendon, relative to the services rendered by Generals de Courtigis and Borelli, and their troops, to British vessels recently wrecked near that port. Four British...

SEARCH FOR YACHT REPORTED ON FIRE Troon, Ayrshire. At 1.34, early on the morning of the 13th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a yacht was on fire somewhere in the Sound of Bute and said...

APRIL 29TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 12.25 in the afternoon the coastguard at Hope Cove reported that eight men in a 16-feet boat had stranded on Book Rock near Thurlestone. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the men, who were...

The fish- ing boat Vivid, belonging to Wexford, struck on the Dogger Bank when re- turning from the fishing grounds on the llth January. Signals of distress were made, and with great promptness the crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15...

Mr. S. Macdonald, F.R.I.N.A., M.I.E.S.S., S.N.A.M.E., has been appointed Chief Staff Officer (Technical) of the R.N.L.I. Mr. Macdonald is married and is aged 50.

He was educated at Greenock and Edinburgh Academies and...