LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ilfracombe, Devon.—Shortly after 3 P.M. on the 18th November, 1938, a southerly wind was rapidly rising to a gale, with a rough sea. Three rowing fishing boats could be seen at sea by the coastguard, and at 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...

At 4.20 on the afternoon of 15th December the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched in charge of the Second Coxswain, as the fishing boat Respect, of Seahouses, manned by the'Life-boat Coxswain and three other men, had...

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on the 12th February the Coastguard reported a barge at anchor near the South East Buxey Sand, with her fore- mast and head gear carried away, but there was no signal indicating that help was required. The barge...

DAMAGED FUEL-PIPE Exmouth, Devon. At 9.10 p.m. on 9th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen south of Straight Point. There was a gentle west-north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was two...

INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF COLLIER Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 11.25 on the morning of the 11th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Grimsby trawler Yesso, which was then ten miles north...

MOTOR BOAT BEACHED Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.58 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat south of the lookout had broken down. The coxswain studied the boat's position...

Ramsgate, Kent. — On the 12th February, 1938, the motor boat Salvor, of Ramsgate, with a crew of three, had gone out to the North Goodwin Lightvessel, to bring ashore a Trinity House mechanic. She left the light-vessel about 5 P.M., and as...

Captain Guy Fanshawe, a member of the Committee of Management for thirty-seven years, died on the 19th June, 1962, at the age of eighty.

A son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Captain Fanshawe himself had a...