LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE greatly regret to have to record the death of Commander St. Vincent Nepean, R.N., M.V.O., which took place on the 28th March. Commander Nepean joined the Institution as a District Inspector of Life-boats in 1883 and became, successively,...

Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 12th April the Hoy lake Life-boat Hannah Fawsett Bennett was called out to the assistance of a small yawl yacht, the Roulette, of Hoylake, which became unmanageable when off Dover Point. The W.N.W. wind was very...

At 2.15 P.M on the 17th January the coastguard tele- E honed to the coxswain that the small shing boat Agnes and Betsy had not returned from the fishing grounds. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor...

BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 9th December the wind suddenly became squally, increasing to a gale from the W.

off the land. A large open boat, manned by two men and a boy, and having but one broken oar on board, was swept...

FILEY.—The coble Eliza, having on board a crew of three men who were fishing, on the 8th January, was lost sight of,and as darkness was approaching and the wind and sea were increasing it was considered advisable to take out the Life-boat...

Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.40 in the afternoon of the 1st of April 1952, the Mablethorpe coastguard tele- phoned that a small ship lying at anchor three and a half miles east- north-east of Mablethorpe appeared to be flying a distress signal,...

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Whitby, Yorkshire. — At eleven in the morning of the 7th of March, 1952fishermen reported that conditions on the outer harbour bar were very dangerous for returning fishing boats, and at 11.15 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...