LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THREE MATERNITY CASES Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—A severe blizzard on the 12th of March, 1947, isolated Campbeltown. On the morning of the 15th a woman with child in the Southend district needed a doctor, and at 10.50 that, morning the motor...

FOR a rescue from a cabin cruiser, which led to the saving of five lives, including that of an elderly lady who was trapped in a cabin, Mr. Robert Jefford, helmsman, and Mr. Lionel Fisher, crewman, both of Lyme Regis, have been accorded the...

JANUARY 16TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1.51 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was flying a distress signal south of Palling Look-out. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...

Sir Will'""' Martin.

The Committee of Management, the Staff of the Institution and the many friends of the Life-boat Service in Scotland, learnt with very deep regret of the death of Sir William Martin, on...

SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...

LIZARD.—The schooner Gipsy Queen, of Padstow, bound from London for Liverpool, with cement, struck on Mynheer Rocks during a moderate gale from the N.E. on the evening of the 13th March, and showed signals of distress. The Lifeboat Edmund...

FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...

HENDON, SUNDERLAND.—As the re- sult of a shipwreck, with loss of life, at Ryhope Point, Sunderland, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has, on the strong representation of the Local Committee, formed a Life-boat station at Hendon Beach...