LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

" SHIPBUILDING—From Smack to Frigate, from Cutter to Destroyer." Published on behalf of J. Samuel White & Co., Ltd., Cowes, by the Albion Publishing Co., London.

This book describes the activities of the firm...

THE Life-Boat Saturday Fund workers have been much handicapped in their collecting by the serious and apparently increasing depression in trade which has of late so extensively prevailed and which is still with us. To make matters worse...

On the 12th February, signals of distress were shown by the three-masted schooner Mary Watkinson, of Barrow, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden therefore went to her assistance. She was drifting towards the shore at Penrhos Point, dragging her...

Arbroath, Angus.—At midday on the 17th December a S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The local fishing boats Sceptre, Our Boys, Golden Rule, Breadwinner and Helen Cargill were expected in, and as the harbour bar was very...

COBLE BROKEN DOWN Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.50 in the afternoon of the 15th of Decem- ber, 1947, the coastguard reported a fishing coble burning flares three miles south-east of Hauxley Point. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—Three local fish- ing boats were at sea on the morning of the llth of November, 1952, in deteriorating weather, and at 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a heavy sea with a northerly gale blowing....

COXSWAIN FREDERICK LAKER of Shoreham died on the 6th of Novem- ber, 1953, at the age of 73. He was appointed coxswain of the Shoreham Harbour life-boat when the station was re-opened in 1929. He remained coxswain until he retired in 1940.<...

BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...