LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A LETTER for the Institution was delivered with the address, "To Coxswain of London R.N.L.I. Life Boat.".

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 10th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Lollipop from Caldy Island, with ten persons on board, was drifting, with a rope round her pro- peller, near rocks...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of March, 1954, the Valentia radio station reported that the motor trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, which had a crew of five, had broken down four miles south-east of Blasket Island. At...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.15 in the morning on the llth of December, 1949, the coastguard reported that a lighter was drifting in the fairway near the east Ouze buoy. At 7.45 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—-At 5.10 in the evening on the 8th of May, 1951, flashes were reported from the motor fishing boat Westmark, of Milford Haven, which had been at anchor off Aberystwyth harbour but seemed to have dragged. At 5.28...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1951, the coxswain reported that the local hshing coble Hilda II was off Red Cliff and making for Scarborough in bad weather. It would have been dangerous for her to enter...

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the weather was deteriorating and that the local fishing cobles Imperialist and Silver Line were still at sea. At 1.45 the...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.17 on the evening of the 17th of December, 1960, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a vessel in Pegwell Bay was burning flares. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis was launched at 6.26, two...