LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Informa- tion having been received on the llth October that a vessel was ashore on the West Hoyle Bank, steps were taken to verify it, and at 5.35 P.M. signals were fired for the Life-boat. With all despatch the H. 0. Powell was launched and...

During a whole westerly gale on Sunday the 22nd February informa- tion was received that a vessel in Wexford Bay was making signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat were summoned, and the boat was launched as quickly as possible. On...

THE Life-boat Service is represented at the Festival of Britain by its latest life-boat, the Sir Godfrey Baring, a 46-feet 9-in hes Watson cabin life-boat built for the station at the Humber, to which she will go when the Festival closes,...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.30 on the night of the 6th of September, 1955, the police rang up to say that a woman had reported that the motor launch Noddy, which had been out all day with her son and three friends on board, had not returned....

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 1.27 early on the morning of the 30th of July, 1956, the Senior Naval Officer, Northern Ireland, asked if the life-boat would stand by a motor minesweeper which had hove to in bad weather three miles...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At three o'clock on the morning of the 14th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Volga was making water seven miles west-by-north of Porth- dinllaen Point....

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.30 on the night of the 9th October, 1961, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a Polish fishing vessel was aground near the old pier lighthouse.

At eleven o'clock, the...

[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...