LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CALLS BY CRUISER Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.48 p.m.

on 27th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a flashing light and calls for help had been seen and heard 400 yards off No. 4 Martello Tower by...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1950, Lloyds Hailing Station, North Shields, reported that a steamer had informed Cullcrcoats Radio that a small fishing vessel one mile east of Tyne North Pier, was...

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 10.10 on the night of the 17th of August, 1956, a message was received that the motor boat Erin was overdue from a fishing expedition. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at...

Walmer, Kent. At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1958, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down two miles north-north-west of the South Goodwin ftghtvessel. At one o'clock the life-boat...

Plymouth, Devon. At 9.54 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Rame Head informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Petite Marie-Claude had an engine failure off Looe Bay three and a half miles...

Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1958, a message was received that a small motor boat was being driven ashore west of Portmagee. At 1.30 the life- boat Rowland Watts put out in a rough sea. There was a...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of Septem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down two and a half miles south-south-west of Shoreham...

• MAJOR John Showell-Rogers, R.M., is the station honorary secretary at Poole, Dorset, where there is a 35-foot 6-inch Liverpool type life-boat, the George Elmy, and a Dell Q.uay dory inshore life-boat with the hull number...