LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Life-boat Stamp Bureau, which was founded by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, in 1933, is continuing and ex- tending its work. Miss Power has now a number of regular customers who want only first-class...

Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6 P.M. on the 6th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a...

At 6.15 A.M. on the 13th October the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station told the coxswain that Holmpton coastguard had reported a steam trawler ashore at Dimlington. She was the Kirby. of Grimsby, bound home from the fishing grounds, with a...

At about noon on the 3rd April the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a steamer appeared to be unmanageable.

Later she stranded on Spurn Point.

She was the s.s. Lancashire, of Sunder- land,...

Early on the morning of the 17th May the life- boat watchman heard a vessel sounding SOS on her siren, and a little later the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a trawler was ashore near Kilnsea Beacon. She was the steam...

MR. J. R. ATTERTON, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution.

Mr. Atterton, who is aged 44, first joined the Institution's staff in 1936 and worked in the Chief Inspector's depart- ment, and...

SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SURVEY VESSEL Cromer, Norfolk. At 9.45 on the evening of the 2nd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that H.M.S. Scott, one of the survey vessels of the Royal Navy, had requested a doctor and ambulance to...

TRAWLER TOWED AFTER COLLISION WITH SUBMARINE Plymouth, Devon. At 9.29 on the morning of the 14th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was sinking two miles west of Rame Head, and at 9.43 the life-boat...