LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dungeness, Kent.—At 2.57 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1952, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy with two people on board was in distress off Lydd. The sea was rough, with a strong wind blowing. The life-boat Charles...

At 5.15 p.m. on 20th August, 1966, a cabin cruiser was reported in distress in the Rock Channel. At 5.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings. The sea was calm. It was four hours after high water. The cabin cruiser Comet was...

Kilmore, Wexford - At 11.15 p.m.

on 8th September, 1966, a small pleasure boat with one man on board was reported overdue. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 11.30. It was high water.

She found the...

SAILS WERE TORN Exmouth, South Devon. At 1.30 p.m.

on 4th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor in rough seas and near gale force north-easterly winds close to...

With deep regret we record the following deaths: January 1996 Coleman Hernon, ex-coxswain of Aran Islands lifeboat (formally known as Galway Bay).

Coleman became bowman of the lifeboat in 1949, 2nd Coxswain in 1951 and...

ISLE of ARRAN, N.B.—On the 13th July, at about 11.30 P.M., during a strongN.E. wind and moderate sea, the pilot smack Marion, while cruising between Lamlash and Ailsa Craig, had her jib carried away; she afterwards stranded on the Carlin...

COVERACK, CORNWALL.—About 6 A.M.

on the 21st February a four-masted steel barque—the Clan Graham, of nearly 2,000 tons register—while on a voyage from AJgoa Bay to the English Channel in ballast, ran aground on the rocks...

COXSWAIN GEORGE LENG of Flam- borough died on the 6th of March, 1955, at the age of 75. He served as coxswain for 14 years, retiring at the end of 1945. He had previously served for more than 11 years as bowman.

In 1937 he...