LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BY the death of Admiral Stuart Nicholson, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., on 10th September, at the age of seventy, the Institution has lost one of its most active and successful honorary secre- taries. At the end of 1920 he retired from the Navy after...

NIGHT-LONG SEARCH St. Mary's, Scffly Islands. At 6.10 p.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the yacht Fair Judgement, on passage from Gibraltar, had asked for guidance to the Scilly Islands. The yacht was...

TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT WITH THREE ABOARD Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.50 on the evening of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks at Carn Du. The...

Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 8.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1963, Valentia Radio told the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the m.v. Oranmore had been seriously injured following a collision between the m.v. Oranmore and the m.v.

LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th June the Life-boat John Gray Bell was launched to the assistance of the schooner Hannah and Joseph, of Liverpool, ashore on Carnarvon bar, which vessel, after some hours' hard work on the part of the...

SELSEY, SUSSEX.—The Four Sisters Lifeboat was launched about 5 P.M. on the 13th November to the aid of the barque Saraca, of Glasgow, which had stranded on the Outer Owers during a moderate gale of wind from the E. and a very heavy sea. The...

BODIMIB, NOBTHTJMBEBLAND.— At 1.30 A.M. on the 26th October the Robin Hood of Nottingham Life-boat put off and rescued the crew, consisting of four men, from the brig Success,of Sunderland, bound from that port for Arbroath with a cargo of...

Again, on the 16th Nov., this Life-boat saved the crew of 10 men from the barque Fttatore, of Genoa, which was lost on the Middle Cross Sand, during a gale at N.N.E.

This service was one of extreme peril, and the Life-boat...