LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the beginning of September the two Motor Life-boats for Montrose and Longhope went to their Stations from the Building Yard at Cowes. Com- mander B. D. Drury, O.B.E., K.D., R.N.R., the Northern District Inspector, •was in command, both...

By Councillor Alexander Robertson, Honorary Secretary of the Eastbourne Station.

THERE died in Eastbourne on 16th February, 1937, a lady, Mrs. Caroline Allchorn, who was a hundred years old last year. She was born on 3rd...

REDCAR.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Rose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...

Dummies from Aeroplanes: New Regulations.

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat two false alarms were recorded. In each case a parachute, with a dummy attached, had been dropped into the sea by an aeroplane, and the dummy was...

At about 8.30 P.M. on the 10th August it was reported by visitors that a small fishing boat had not returned, and was believed to be fog-bound about one and a half miles S.E. of Bembridge. The Motor Life-boat Langham was launched in a smooth...

APPLEDORE, DEVONSHIRE. — About 1.15 P.M. on the 23rd March, the ketch Camille, of Nantes, while bound from that place to Fremington, with a cargo of oil, attempted to come through the "south gut" and stranded. In response to her...

Aberdeen.—During the very bad storms from 21st January to 1st February the motor life-boat was launched three times, the pulling and sailing lifeboat was launched once, and her crew assembled twice. The Institution's lifesaving apparatus...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 4th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boats Peggy, If, and Billy Boy, carrying seven men altogether, were making heavy weather three miles south of...