LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

West Division Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two...

Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 9th of August, 1951, the life-boat Jose Neville was launched on a pub- licity trip to the Broads for Festival Life-boat Week. A moderate, but increasing swell was running with a moderate...

KILDOHAN, ISLE OF ABBAN.—At 6 P.M.

on the 6th October, a vessel was seen flying the signal "I am sinking." The Life-boat Emily Dewar was promptly launched, and found the vessel was the barque Bimac, of Liverpool,...

Humber, Yorkshire.—Shortly before midnight on the 19th March, 1938, the motor vessel Confid, of Rotterdam, bound laden from Plymouth for Middlesbrough, ran aground on the Inner Binks. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a...

The motor cruiser Penton, of Cardiff, with three men on board, was making for Barry on the night of the 25th-26th June, when, through a defect in her machinery, she was obliged to anchor near Friars Point. Her anchors dragged and she lighted...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 7.45 on the night of the 13th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares about one and a half miles north-east of the coast- guard station. At 8.0 the life-boat John Russell,...

BY the death on the 6th of February, of His Majesty King George VI, the Life-boat Service lost not only a beloved Sovereign but its own Patron.

He had carried on the tradition of over a century and a quarter that the...

In the first Number of this Journal we showed the intimate connexion between fishermen and life-boats, and stated that in the fisheries of the United Kingdom there were employed on the 1st January, 1850, the large number of 36,000 boats,...