LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.

For a cry came over the wailing sands,...

APRIL 25TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.39 in the morning the naval authorities at Dover asked, through the coastguard, that the life-boat should be launched to an aeroplane north-east of the South Foreland. A moderate north-west wind was blowing,...

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1954, the police reported that a Conway sailing boat, with a crew of two, had capsized near the life-boat station.

At two o'clock the life-boat Field...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized four miles from Porthdinllaen. The life-boat Charles Henry...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.35 on the morning of the 22nd of May, 1957, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the east pier watchman had reported a dinghy drifting past Quern buoy.

At 7.52 the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service...

DRIFTING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Dover, Kent. At 3.19 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, a message was received by the honorary secretary from the eastern arm signal station that an outboard motor boat had broken down off Kingsdown near St....

Lymington, Hampshire. At 7.5 a.m.

on 22nd June, 1965, the police informed the acting honorary secretary that a fishing boat was overdue. At 7.25 the inshore rescue boat was launched in a slight, gusting to gentle,...

THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...