LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

While a moderate gale was blowing from the N. with a very rough sea, rain, snow and very cold weather, on the morning of the 28th April, the fishing lugger Tally Ho, of Scarborough, was seen making for the bay. On rounding Filey Brigg she...

During a whole S. by E. gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, on the 13th January, the 'oxswain was at the Coastguard Look- out, when, at 10.25 A.M., a message was received from Gorleston that a vessel off Gorton was firing a signal for...

COXSWAIN HENRY BLOGG, of Cromer, who recently received the Silver Medal of the Institution for the rescue, last October, of thirty lives from the Italian steamer, Monte Nevoso, has received a postcard from San Diego, California, which says :...

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Medical Officer of Health for the Shetlands asked if the life-boat would go to Fair Isle and bring back a man who had appendicitis. The weather was too bad for a...

Selsey, Sussex.—At 5.40 on the after- noon of the 9th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Chichester police had reported a yacht in difficulties half a mile off Brackles- ham Bay. At six o'clock the life-boat Canadian...

Dunbar, East Lothian. — At eight o'clock on the evening of the 18th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up the coxswain to say that the police had reported that three people and a dog were cut off by the tide half a mile west of Dunbar....

COLONEL JOSEPH BENSKIN, D.S.O., O.B.E., died on the 14th of July, 1953.

He had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management since 1929 and a Vice-President since 1948. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee in...

Kirkcudbright.—At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 20th of February, 1954, the Ross Island lighthouse keeper reported that a motor boat was drifting on the ebb tide. The coxswain had also seen her, and at 6.15 the life-boat J....