LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 10.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel near the N.E. Swin Lightship had been attacked by German aeroplanes.

A light S.W. breeze was blowing, with...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1953, a message was received from Bull Fort in the River Humber that a work- man had fallen and broken his ribs.

No other boat was available to take him...

NORTH DEAL.—Signals having beenfired by the South Sand Head Lightvessel, the crew of the Mary Somervitte Life-boat were summoned on the morning of the 3rd February, and the boat was launched at about 7.10. The weather was thick at the time;...

While making a few observations on this important subject, we seize the opportunity of republishing recent re- marks of Mr. Scott, the able and scientific chief of the London Weather Office.

He says:—" The system of...

ALDBOBOUGH.—Information having been received that a vessel was in distress at the N. end of Sizewell Bank, the George Hounsfidd Life-boat was launched at about 11.40. A.M. on the 14th March, during a strong S.E. gale and a very heavy sea,...

In the description of the new Dover Motor Life-boat, which was published in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that the boat could travel 156In the description of the new Dover Motor Life-boat, which was published in the last...

ON the night of the 19th of October last, in a gale of wind, the small sixoared self-righting life-boat belonging to the National Life-boat Institution at Dungeness proceeded through a heavy sea, managed by eight Coast-guard men, to a wreck...

WHITHORN.—A vessel having been repotted dismasted in Wigtown Bay on the 9th October, the Life-boat Henry and John Leighton was launched at'3.10 P.M., being in the water in ten minutes from the time the signals were fired to summon the...