LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...

By Rear-Admiral Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.

INFORMATION about the weather, or respecting instruments available for popular use, as indicators of changes in our ever-varying atmosphere, has been extensively diffused daring late years,...

DURING March, 1948, life-boats went out on service 30 times and rescued 10 lives.

AGROUND IN FOG Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a...

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 8.45 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1957, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing boat had capsized off the mouth of the river Axe and was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Fiji and Charles was...

Margate, Kent.—At 9.45 in the morn- ing of the 27th of February, 1949, the coastguard reported that a yacht, three miles to the north-eastwards, was drifting rapidly towards the shore. A strong west-north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 11.27 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the Sunderland coast- guard telephoned that the Souter light- house had reported that a small boat could be seen drifting off Souter...

Plymouth, South Devon.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of June, 1956, the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out from her ] moorings on an exercise in a smooth sea. A fresh north-north-westerly breeze was blowing, and...

CATEGORY Services Lives Saved No. Percen- tage of Total No. Percen- tage of Total (1) Naval vessels . . 5 •4% — — (2) Foreign going merchant vessels 31 2-8% 17 3-4% (3) Home trade mer- chant vessels . . 30 2-7% ...