LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.12 in the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, with two persons on board, had cap- sized off Dumpton Gap, and four min- utes later the motor life-boat Prudential left her...

Expenditure.

Life-boats :— £ s. d. £ s. d.

New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aith, Broughty Ferry, Cromer, Gourdon, Hythe, Ilfra- combe, North Sunderland...

Cromer, Norfolk.—About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, a bather could be seen in a rubbeJ dinghy three-quarters of a mile north- east of the pier. He appeared to be drifting seawards on the ebbing...

MAEGATE, KENT, and HARWICH, ESSEX. — At 11.30 A.M. on the 19th August information was received at Margate that a large vessel was ashore on the Longsand. The crew of the No. '2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were assembled, the Life-boat...

Fishing boat sinking ROSSLARE HARBOUR OFFICE informed Storeman R. Walshe at 1130 on Thursday December 7, 1978, that a Swedish cargo vessel had relayed a distress signal from a fishing boat sinking off Tuskar Rock. Maroons were fired at 1135,...

Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.20 in the afternoon, on the 21st of October, 1950, the life-boat coxswain reported that a motor launch had hoisted a distress signal, a mile east of the station and about one and a half miles off...

.—At 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March a French cargo steamer, named the St. Malo, and belonging to St. Nazaire, struck the bar when leaving the harbour, and knocked round broad- side to the sea. The Life-boat Michael Henry was sent to her...

An invitation to me visit id discover the world of lifeboats..Few visitors to the seaside would think of a lifeboat station as a place to visit. But, as the operation and housing of a lifeboat is an essential seafront activity, many...