LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. A British Sunderland flying boat was reported to have been forced down, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless as another aeroplane had gone to her help. - Rewards, £6 13s..

MARCH 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel coming in reported that she had found a small fishing boat and a dinghy with no one on board, and the life-boat made a wide search for her crew, but found nothing.- Rewards, £4 5s..

MAY 26TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A boy had fallen over the cliff at Berry Head and was too badly injured to be hauled up, but before the life-boat could reach the scene a passing tug had been signalled, had put in to shore and had taken the boy on...

JULY 3RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. During thick fog the British steamer Merchant Royal and the American steamer William B. Travis had collided. The life-boat could not find them and was recalled, when it was learned that an American ship was...

It was reported on the evening of the 13th September that a party of nine people were stranded on Lady Isle, about three miles from Troon, in the Firth of Clyde. They had left Prestwick at 3 P.M. in a motor boat and had landed on the island...

THE forty-first anniversary of this ad- mirable society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, on the 27th May, under the presidency of Admiral Sir ALEXANDER MILNE, G.C.B., Vice- President.

Amongst those...

French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...

When a life-boat bridge tournament was held recently in a Dublin hotel, several supporters extended the scope of it to neighbouring counties by asking friends to play at tables in their houses.

The players at these tables...