LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MR. C. S. CLAYTON of the firm of Messrs.

Clayton, Leach, Sims & Co., died on the 19th of April, 1951, three and a half months after he had retired from it.

He had then been a partner in the firm for...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of 27th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Norwegian fishing boat Reform, with an injured man aboard, fifty miles north-north-west of Barra Head, had...

APRIL 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. Late at night a doctor received a call from the Deal coastguard asking him to visit the American Liberty ship Ernest L. Grant, which was a quarter of a mile south of the South Goodwin Buoy. A strong north-east wind...

SEPT. 27TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.

At 1.30 A.M. the Kirkwall coastguard reported that a Norwegian steamer was ashore at Burness, Sanday, nearly fifty miles away.

The weather was fine, with a light N.E....

Surf ski rider HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Agnes ILB station at 1626 on Sunday, July 17, 1977, that a surf ski rider was in difficulties off Porthtowan, about 3'/4 miles south west from St Agnes. The DLA...

BROADSTAIRS. — Signals having been fired by the East Goodwin and North Sand Head light-vessels, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Bradford, was launched at 4 A.M. on the 24th May, and found theschooner Buenos Aires, of Hamburg, stranded on the...

As this issue of the JOURNAL probably comes before many of the head teachers of National Schools throughout the j United Kingdom for the first time, j and in view of their widespread co- j operation in the Prize Essay Competition, it seems...

PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ullen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush on the 28th Feb., 1891.

On the 2nd March, a gale...