LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The death occurred early in June of Mr. H. B.

Fleet who was the well known honorary secretary of the Margate, Kent, life-boat station. During his long public service—he spent many years in the Police—Mr. Fleet devoted...

Aith, Shetlands.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1954, the Lerwick coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Britannia, of Lerwick, with a crew of five, had broken down in Papa Sound off Sand- ness. At 12.58 the...

On the afternoon of the 9th August a tele- phone message was received from the coast watcher at Cahore that a ketch was ashore on the Rusk bank, about three miles from Cahore Point. A moderate to strong E. by N. wind was blowing, with a...

Nov. 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 6.49 A.M..

a message was received at the Humber lifeboat station from the Spurn Head Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel one and a half miles south-west...

Thursday, 19th January, 1928.

SIR GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.

Passed a Vote of Thanks to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., for attending a Gala Performance of the Film " The Black...

Turn to the centre Listings of the Lifeboat magazine and you may be amazed at how often lifeboats launch. Only a tiny proportion of these ever feature in the Lifeboat. Here's a snapshot of the wide range of other lifeboat services...

SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which...

GRIMSBY-.—On the 6th March, at 2.30 P.M., the schooner Mary Coad, of Port Isaac, Cornwall, bound from Antwerp to Middlesbrough, was observed flying a signal of distress in the main rigging. She was riding in the Humber about half-amile N.N.W...