LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following letter has come from a boy, eight years old, living in Derby- shire, with a postal order for eight shillings :— " DEAR SIR,—I had a sale and got 8s.

I love the sea.

" Yours truly,...

Baltimore, Co. Cork.—2nd July. A large vessel was reported to have foundered after blowing her siren.

Visibility was poor and actually the vessel had disappeared into the fog.—• Rewards £5 12s..

Cromer No. 2, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—14th February, 1938.

A steamer had foundered after striking the Haisborough Sands, but her crew was rescued by the Gorleston Volunteer life-boat.—Rewards : Cromer,...

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IN this article, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was stated that greenheart, a very hard wood of which a little is used in building life- boats, was an African wood. This was not correct. It comes from...

Aith, Shetlands.—20th August, 1939.

Rockets had been seen by the coastguard, and a message was received that a Royal Air Force aeroplane was missing, but the life-boat found nothing.

—Rewards, £8 13,9...

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Ex-Coxswain Thomas H. Bloom, who served as an officer of the Walton and Frinton life-boat for 31 years, is dead. He won a silver and two bronze medals in the course of his life-boat career..