LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CARNSORE, Co. WEXFOKD.—Signals were shown by the Tuskar Lighthouse for the steamer to proceed to her, on the 29th August. A messenger was at once sent to Wexford, but the tender could not get over the bar, owing to the heavy...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 7.54 on the morning of the 7th of January, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report that a rocket had been seen near the Gorton lightvessel.

At 8.15 the life-boat Michael...

Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 10.10 on the night of the 1st of July, 1959, a report was received that flares had been seen off Black Rocks, Penmon. At 10.25 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a rough sea. There was a...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 3.52 on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary of a police report that two men, who were believed to have taken the fishing boat Sandra without...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 16th May, 1961, the signal station reported that the yacht Overlord, which had a crew of six, had been dismasted thirty miles west of Hanois lighthouse and that the tanker Volvatella...

Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.45 on the morning of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small canoe had capsized off Castle beach and that its two occupants were in the water. The life- boat Crawford and...

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1956 has been won by Reginald Carey, of Coverack, Cornwall.

Reginald Carey, who is normally second coxswain of the Coverack lifeboat, was acting coxswain when the...

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 7.43 p.m. on 4th July, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat with two men on board was overdue and that further inquiries were being made. In the meantime the coxswain and...