LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 9.20 p.m. on loth May, 1967, a red flare was reported to have been seen half a mile off Pakefield rifle range. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.30 in a fresh easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. put out at 11.30 A.M. on the 29th February, as the watchman had reported that the steamer Wexfordian was ashore on Wexford Bar. Mr. W. J. B.

Moncas, the branch...

MONTROSE.—The fishing-boat Useful, of Kirkcaldy, while going out of the harbour on the afternoon of the 27th July in a moderate 8.E. wind and a rough sea, went ashore on the Annat Bank. The seas were breaking heavily on the sand and the...

ABERSOCH.—On the11th November, at about 3 P.M., the schooner Jane and Ellen, Nefyn, which had parted from her anchors, was observed to show a signal of distress, having struck on a bank at the mouth of the river Soch, during a heavy gale...

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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.39 on the morning of the 30th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Fidra of Leith that one of her crew was in pain with...

To EDWAKD WIOKHAM, on his retirement, after serving 27 years as Coxswain and previously 13 years as Second Coxswain of the Wexford Life-boat, a Certificate of Service, a Pension, and a Special Gratuity.

To STEPHEN CLAYSON,...

COLONEL SIR HENRY MCMAHON, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.S.I., who died on the 29th of December, 1949, at the age of 87, had been a member of the Committee of Manage- ment for thirty years, and was ap- pointed a vice-president in 1948. He ...