LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—About five o'clock in the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland was returning to her station after overhaul at Cowes when she saw distress signals from the motor yacht...

Hastings, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the 19th August a man told the honorary secretary that his speed-boat was anchored off the bathing pool, with her engine broken down, and that the weather was too bad for him to go off to her and fetch...

Broughty Ferry, Angus. — At about 9.55 A.M. on the 28th February, 1938, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that availing boat which had been anchored off Buddon Ness had drifted out of sight. An hour later they telephoned that Buddon Ness...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 12.15 P.M. on the 17th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a signal about one and a half miles N.W. from Kinnaird Head.

A strong north-westerly breeze was...

Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.20 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, a message was received from the trawler agents at Cahirciveen that a Spanish trawler was sinking twenty-five miles south-west of Skelligs Rock. Another vessel was...

HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1959 included : K.C.M.G. COMMANDER THE RIGHT HONOURABLE A. H. P.

NOBLE, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.

(Retd.), a former...

The IRB at Hartlepoool, Co. Durham, had an unusual service on 21st June, 1970, which it turned into 'a public relations exercise owing to the beach being packed with visitors and a rather smelling dead dolphin causing some headaches to...

The Cruising Association Handbook, Revised Edition 1971. (The Cruising Association, 490 pp, £6).

• This new edition covers the waters of Britain and Ireland and continental Europe from Kiel to Gibraltar. The coverage...