LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RICHARD ARMSTRONG Vent Grace Darling Maid and Myth A mariner by training, Mr. Armstrong presents Grace as a living girl, already a legend in her lifetime. His account of the wreck of the Forfarshire is entirely...

Margate, Kent. — At 8.33 in the evening of the 10th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat had burnt flares two and a half miles east of Margate, and at 8.40 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was launched....

From Warsaw THREE hundred and fifty-four zloty, ten groszy (£12 18s. 5d.), partly contri- buted to a life-boat collecting box at the British Passport Office, and partly the proceeds of a bridge tournament organized by two English ladies...

Montrose, Angus.—Retween eight and nine on the morning of the 27th August the wind increased to a strong S.S.E.

gale. In the face of a strong ebb tide this set up a heavy sea on the bar, and made the entrance into harbour...

Mrs Elsie Norman, honorary life member of Lewisham branch since 1979 and member of the branch committee in the early 1950's. She was awarded a silver badge in 1976..

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the 5th June at 4 A.M. the barque Alecto, of Malta, bound from Cyprus to Aberdeen with locust beans, stranded on the Cross Sand during a fresh wind from 8.W. A yawl immediately proceeded to her, and remained alongside...

Littlestone-on-Sea, Kent - At 1.40 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, a crew member informed the honorary secretary that a small pram dinghy was in difficulties three quarters of a mile to seaward. She had dragged her anchor in the wind and tidal...

Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of the 23rd of November, 1953, local fishing boats put to sea, but at 11.30 the coastguard reported that condi- tions at the harbour bar were danger- ous. At 11.45 the life-boat Howard D., on temporary duty at...