LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Abergele police had reported that a small boat had capsized off Llandulas, and that her crew of two were swim- ming towards Abergele....

The Essex County Council has arranged for the extraordinary happenings at the end of January and the beginning of February, 1953, when large parts of the east coast were flooded, to be recorded in a splendidly produced and well illustrated...

OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...

LAUNCH FOUND AGROUND ON SANDS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.33 on the evening of the 17th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the launch Marina was aground one mile north-west of Wallet Spitway buoy.

The...

DEAD MAN REMOVED FROM LIGHTVESSEL New Brighton, Cheshire. At approximately 9.35 on the morning of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Marine Department of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board informed the honorary secretary that a member of...

Longhope, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 21st of May, 1955, the principal keeper of the Cantick Head lighthouse reported that the local motor vawl Shirma, laden with lobster pots and carrying a crew of two, had broken down. He later...

The first full annual meeting for five years was held in London on October 25th., *nd H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, presented the eight gold medals won during the war for conspicuous...

Last year the Institution had a deficit of nearly £124,000, and the figures for revenue and expenditure at the end of the first six months of the present year indicate that in 1967 there is every likelihood of an even larger deficit. At...