LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The R.N.L.I's charter doe* not make provision Tor the preservation uf old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a New Brighton stage- man that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties near the...

Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1958, the Lade coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been lost overboard from the tanker Pan Gothia of Kungsbacka, Sweden, seven and a half miles south-west...

Seaham, Durham.—At 9.45 on the night of the 13th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from Cullercoats Radio Station that a vessel was in distress, four miles east of Seaham Harbour, and the life-boat Elizabeth Witts Allen was...

Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4.38 P.M. on the 7th January, 1939, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties.

Soon afterwards they reported...

DOCTOR PUT ABOARD MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Uskport, on passage from Newport, Monmouthshire, to Tunis was approaching...

Islay, Hebrides. At 8.15 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1960, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that he needed help urgently to convey a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. Owing to dense fog the air...

[These extracts are from Dame Millicent Fawcett's book of reminiscences, " What I Remember," which were published (12*. 6d. net) last autumn. They are made by her kind permission, and that of her publishers, Messrs. T. Fisher...