LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TWO SERVICES IN BAD WEATHER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 a.m.

on Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the coxswain was told that a local fishing boat which had left for the fishing ground eight miles north of Wicklow had not...

ARM SEVERED Swanage, Dorset. At 8.45 p.m. on 9th June, 1965, while the assistant honorary secretary, coxswain and other members of the life-boat crew were preparing for the local Ladies Guild fair to be held on the roth June, the...

Disabled and drifting with a fouled propeller, the fishing boat Faith Ann was in trouble in storm force winds, 50 miles off Orkney. Soon after midday on 26 April the Shetland Coastguard requested the launch of the Stromness lifeboat on a...

Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.33 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1952, the life-boat honorary secretary saw a fishing boat about five miles to the south-east burn flares. At 4.36 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched in a slight sea with a...

THE ISLE OF PURBECK, AND ITS LIFE- BOATS.

XLI. — SWANAGE.— The Charlotte and Mary, 35 feet by 9 feet, 10 oars.

XLII.—KIMERIDGE.—The Mary Heape, 28 feet by 6 feet 8 inches, 5 oars.

THIS...

FOR some time past it has been felt by the Institution that its Branch at Grimsby did not receive from the trawler owners the support which it bad reason to expect in view of the fact that Grimsby is the chief centre of the British Fishing...

AIDED SURVEY SHIP Peel, Isle of Man. At 4.55 p.m. on 6th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the British survey ship Hamburg had sent out a distress call stating that she had run into a strong south-westerly gale...

Thursday, 2nd June, 1870. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...