LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Shortly before 1 P.M. on the 17th April a brig was observed on the Swin Middle Sand. No distress signal could be seen, but the dangerous position of the vessel was considered sufficient to warrant the launching of the Life-boat. The Albert...

Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th of March, 1957, it was reported that the motor vessels Corallo, of Trieste, and Nopal Branca, of Oslo, had been in collision and that...

Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...

ON the 4th of August, 1951, the Calais life-boat, Marechal Foch, paid a visit to Dover. She had on board Dr. P.

Drujon, president of the Calais life- boat station, and members of his com- mittee. They were welcomed by...

0 In Power Boats in Rough Seas (Adlard Coles Ltd., £4.25) Dag Pike has taken a sharp, discerning look at the factors affecting the seaworthiness and safety of power boats and described them in concise, seamanlike terms. Whatever...

MEN FOUND IN ROWING BOAT AFTER SEARCH Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the l l t h October. 1962. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three fishermen had set off at eight o'clock the morning...

Lifeboat! by Edward Wake-Walker, Heather Deane and Georgette Purches, published by Ian Allen at £5.95 ISBN 0-7110-1835-9 As the authors of this volume are the RNLI's public relations officer, his deputy and a recently retired...