LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 9.15 on the night of the 1st of June, 1956. the Orlock coastguard rang up to say that a motor boat was in distress in Don- aghadee Sound. Thelife-boatK.E.C.F., on temporary duty at the station, put out at 9.25 in a...

Wells, Norfolk.—On returning from fishing at 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1949, the life-boat coxswain announced that two fishing boats were still out. The weather had worsened and the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at...

Miss ALICE SUSANNA MARSHALL died at Oxford on the 2nd of January, 1951, at over 90 years of age. She had been one of the most distinguished of the honor- ary secretaries of financial branches, and gave the Institution her enthusiastic and...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.47 in the afternoon, on the 14th of December, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making distress signals about three-quarters of a mile east of the coast- guard station. At 3.55 the life-boat Prudential...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 17th of December, 1950, the coastguard said that a ship four miles east of Lowestoft was in need of help.

At 5.30 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, in a fresh west-north-...

Amble, Northumberland.—About 9.55 on the night of the 1st of May, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had fired a rocket east of the Coquet lightvessel. At 10.15 the life- boat J. W. Archer was launched. There was a slight swell...

Redcar, Yorkshire.—At 4.20 in the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1951, the Salt burn coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing boat had anchored in a dangerous position in Pennyhole, and at 4.47 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched....

Coxswain Charles Edward Ward, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, who died at the beginning of July in his eighty-sixth year, had served as an officer of the Aldeburgh life-boat for thirty-three years. He was second coxswain from 1876 until 1882, and...