LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stromness, Orkneys.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a sick woman to Scapa, who needed hospital treatment in Kirkwall, as the road to Kirkwall from Stromness...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the morning of the 14th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a yacht with a crew of two was missing in the River Blackwater.

The message was passed by radio-...

CAISTER.—On the morning of the 6th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Beauchamp was launched in a very heavy sea and proceeded to the North Scroby Sand where the barque Wallace J. John, of Gluckstadt, had been totally...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the motor barge Persevere, of Rochester, which had a crew of two, had brokendown and sprung a leak and had been taken in tow by a motor...

PORTHDINLLAEN, CARNARVONSHIRE. — The schooner Eichard, of Nefyn, bound from the Scilly Islands for Carnarvon, in ballast, showed signals of distress, being in danger, while at anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay during half a gale of wind, and a...

IN the article in the last number on Mrs. Edith Manby's scarf-helmets for life-boatmen it was stated that over half a hundredweight of wool was used.

This should have been over a quarter of a ton..

IN the article "A Life-boat Christmas," in the last issue of the Journal, it should have been recorded among the visits of life-boats to lightvessels, that the Walton and Frinton boat also went out and took Christmas gifts to the...

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