LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT THE TIME of writing we have over 12,000 subscribing members and new enrolments average 12 per working day.

Already subscriptions are making a worthwhile addition to the funds required by the RNLI. Our aim is to reach a...

The new life-boat at Salcombe, which was given the name The Baltic Exchange to commemorate the support received by the Institution over many years from the Baltic Exchange, was named by Mrs. H. M. Whithouse, the widow of a former Chairman of...

Fenlt, Co. Kerry.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1954, a doctor telephoned that a fishing boat, with a crew of four, was on fire in inner Tralee Bay. At four o'clock the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake put out in a...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At six o'clock in the evening, on the 16th of Sep- tember, 1950, a report was received that a yacht was dragging her moorings on to rocks at Restronguet. At 6.30 the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. — At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned a report from the R.A.F.

station at Uxbridge that two Meteor aeroplanes had...

IBKLAXD, — As the trawling smack Arbitrator, of Wexford, was proceeding to the fishing-ground at about 8 A.M, on the 13th November she struck on the bar, and began to leak heavily, She hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the...

RED FLARES At 3.15 p.m. on nth Janurary, 1966 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local trawler St. Georges was burning red flares just inside the West Gorton buoy. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick responded at 3.30...

Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...