LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT COXSWAIN DIES AFTER HIS FISHING BOAT SINKS Coverack, Cornwall. On Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, a telephone message was received by the second coxswain from the mechanic that the fishing vessel Bessey III, of Coverack, owned by...

MARCH 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About 3.15 in the afternoon men were seen to bale out from an aeroplane which crashed in the sea some two miles off Burnmouth. A light westerly wind...

The Record of Campbeltown, Southend and Machrihanish (Argyllshire).IT will be remembered that in the last issue of The Lifeboat we published a table showing the length of service of j the Committees of a number of the j Institution's...

Holyhead, Anglesey. — 23rd July, 1939. A small yacht had gone agroundin a dangerous position, but she refloated with the rising tide.—Rewards, £7 10s..

21st September. A fishing boat was out in bad weather, and a search was made for her, but in the meantime she had made harbour.—Rewards, £2 16s..

Ramsgate, Kent. — 21st May. A steam trawler had been reported ashore' on the Brake Sands, but she had refloated arid gone on her way.-—• Rewards, £5 8s..

DECEMBER 21ST. - MARGATE, KENT.

The Dutch motor vessel Verba had signalled for a doctor, but it was a pilot that she needed. - Rewards, £10 7s..

Silver Inkstand.

A SILVER INKSTAND, suitably inscribed, has been awarded to Mr. GEORGE WARD, who for fifty years has been associated with the Birmingham Branch, first as a member of the committee, then honorary secretary,...