LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWHAVEN.—The Coxswain of the Lifeboat Michael Henry was informed on the morning of the 12th January that a large ship was ashore at Portobello. He atonce summoned the crew, and at 8.45 the Life-boat was launched. On reaching the vessel she...

Isle of Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 10.45 p.m. on 22nd October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honor-ary secretary that red flares had been reported in the area of the island of Scarba. The life-boat Francis...

JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a second vessel had grounded on South Scroby Sands....

Islay, Inner Hebrides. — At 6.45 on the night of the 22nd of November, 1949, the Kilchqman coastguard tele- phoned that a resident of Port Askaig had reported a vessel ashore on Jura, about one mile north of Inver. At 6.55 the life-beat...

MRS. W. TALBOT-CADOW, of Carlisle, died on the llth of February. She had been an active and successful honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for twenty-eight years. It was in 1923 that she became president of the Car- lisle and district...

MAN, WOMAN AND DOG TAKEN OFF DINGHY Swanage, Dorset. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yellow rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea one mile southsouth- east of...

Barrow, Lancashire. — At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th of November, 1951, the agents of the tanker Merrimac, of New York, re- ported that she had wirelessed that she had a sick man on board in need of a doctor. She would be...

SHORTLY before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of March, 1959, which was Easter Monday, a 30-feet motor fishing boat with three people on board, who were returning from a pleasure trip, capsized at the entrance to Christchurch...