LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Runswick, Yorkshire. — Four fishing cobles put to sea in moderate weather at 7 A.M. on the 31st December, 1937.

Later on, conditions got bad, and by 10.45 A.M. a moderate gale was blowing from the N.N E., with a rough...

Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1957, the Cockburnspath coastguard telephoned a report that a canoe had capsized about four hundred yards from the beach just north of Cock- burnspath. At 2.40 the...

Poole, Dorset - At 12.50 p.m. on 6th December, 1969, the life-boat mechanic received a report from the coastguard that the German training ship Ruhr had asked for help in landing a seriously ill man. A rendezvous was arranged five miles...

Penlee, Cornwall - At 8 p.m. on 6th March, 1967, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed at 6 a.m. the following morning to take a doctor out to the m.v.

Arvidsjauer of Stockholm...

The monumental glass goblet decorated by Miss Honoria Diana Marsh with a picture of the Weston-super-Mare life-boat and illustrated on page 12 of the June number of THE LIFE-BOAT has now been sold by the Institution.

The...

Teesmouth, Yorkshire.-—At eleven •o'clock on the night of the 26th of November, 1952, the South Gare light- house keeper telephoned that a vessel had gone aground on the training wall in the River Tees, and that tugs which had been...

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of September, 1956, the Penmon coastguard tele- phoned that a cabin cruiser was burning flares one mile west of Puffin Island. Her engine had stopped, and she was in danger of...

On the after- noon of 7th November information that two anglers in a small boat were in dis- tress about one and a half miles ofi Hove was received by the Coastguard from the Hove Deep Sea Anglers' Club, to whom the boat and the men be-...