LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent. At 12.40 early on the morning of the 9th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel appeared to have broken down eight miles north-east of Margate. At 1.20 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No....

The schooner Brazilian of South Shields, whilst bound from that port to Stornoway with a cargo of coal, became windbound and lay in Longhope Bay for some days.

A change in the wind enabled her to proceed on her voyage, but...

Padstow, Cornwall.—About 7.30 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1954, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that the Newquay police had reported a boat on fire in Watergate Bay. The No. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadmck put out in a...

Humber, Yorkshire. At 11.55 P-mon gth February, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a trawler was aground near Spurn lighthouse and required assistance. The life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 12.10 in a...

Galway Bay. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1958, the local doctor asked the acting honorary secretary if the life-boat would take an expectant mother from Inish- maine Island to the mainland. There was an...

THE Marconi system of wireless tele- graphy aMr. MARCONI is still engaged in further developing this part of his invention, and if he is able to overcome the liability of messages to get into wrong hands or to be otherwise interfered with,...

Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...

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