LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent.—While on passage on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1957, from Rowledge to Dover, where she was to be stationed temporarily, the life-boat Cunard received a message on her radio telephone that a member of the crew of the...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. —• At 10.40 on the night of the 27th of January, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned that the Scarweather Light- ship had reported flares fourteen miles to the southward, and at 11.10 the motor life-boat William...

MARCH 30TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. At 8.55 P.M. the naval authorities at Appledore asked the life-boat to go to a vessel flying signals of distress two miles east of Clovelly.

A moderate W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...

At 9.30 A.M., on the 4th April, when the fishing-boats were proceeding to the fishing grounds, the Coxswain saw a large steamer ground on the " Outer Owers." He in company with the other boats at once returned and on getting ashore...

Just before midnight on the 28th November-the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Nellie Crane, of Barrow-in-Furness, had left Barrow at 11 A.M. on a fishing cruise, and had not since been heard of.

There were three...

At 5.30 A.M. on the 7th December signals of distress were observed in the Barry Roads, and the assembly signal was fired for the crew of the Life-boat John Wesley. Before the boat was launched the tug-boat came into the harbour and reported...

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 233 Life-boat Stations...

ANOTHER COLLIER IN DIFFICULTIES Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 11.15 in the morning of February 8th, 1947, the life-boat's honorary secretary saw the S.S. Topaz, of Glasgow, run on to the submerged breakwater. She was a collier, bound,...