LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The motor fish- ing-boat Dorothy, of Filey, put out early in the morning on 4th December, but was compelled to return on account of the weather conditions. At 1.30 P.M.

she again went out to collect her...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.--Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 8th January the motor life-boat Langham was launched in a moderate S.W. gale, with a rough sea, as information had been received from Stokes Bay that a fishing boat needed help. The...

DURING the past summer the naming ceremonies have been held of ten motor life-boats, at Gourdon, Hythe, Ilfra- combe, North Sunderland, Port St.

Mary, St. David's, Sheringham, Sunder- land, Wells, and Yarmouth, Isle of ...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 28th May. The weather got bad and some of them came in. By 8 A.M.

a heavy sea was rolling in and breaking at the harbour entrance, and a...

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 12.80 A.M. on the 4th November, 1937, it was reported that a mussel boat, with two men on board, had been expected in at 8 P.M. the previous evening, but had not arrived. A moderate...

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At noon on the 24th of February, 1951, the second coxswain reported that the motor fishing vessel Ringdove, of Wick, was overdue. People were anxious for the safety of her crew of five. At 12.25 the life-boat H. C, J...

Galway Bay.—At 6.0 on the night of the 14th of December, 1951, the Coast Live-saving Service telegraphed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Kil- ronan, with a crew of four, had broken down and was drifting, two and a half miles east of Sand...

HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the birthday honours for 1962 included:— K.C.B. Rear Admiral E. G. IRVING, C.B.E., O.B.E., Hydrogra- pher of the Navy, and ex- officio member of the Com- mittee of...