LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

, KENT. — The ketch Forager, of Portsmouth, from Seaham to Chichester, with coal, with a crew of four men, stranded near Kingsgate Castle on the 22nd February. A Coastguard boat proceeded to her assistance, and endeavoured to get her afloat,...

CARDIGAN.—In the early morning of the 16th March, while a strong gale was blowing, signals of distress were seen from a ketch in Cardigan Bay.

The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare was promptly launched and went to...

Nov. 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

It was eight at night when the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched to the help of a foreign steamer, the Georgios, of Piraeus. The night was very dark. A moderate wind was...

AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.

The...

Cromarty.—At 11.34 on the night of the 14th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported that the sailing cutter Mar- garet, with thirteen boys and one officer from the Moray Firth Sea School on board, was overdue. She had last been seen between...

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a "very important auxiliary to the boat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a, carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...

During the weekend I2th-i3th August, 1967, the V.H.F. and U.H.F. radio transmitter and receiving sets were stolen from the Walmer life-boat station.

The capital cost of this equipment was well over £300..

"English Coastal Evolution." By E M.

Ward (Methuen, 6s. 8d net).

Reviewed by A. W. Lewis, the Consulting Engineer of the Institution.

COASTAL changes concern the Institution...