LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOLYHEAD.—During a dense fog on the 8th January, signals were heard in the direction of the breakwater. The ThomasFielden Life-boat was launched at 5.30 A.M.and found the s.s. Earl Spencer, of Dublin, bound from Greenore for Holyhead, with...

JAN. 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

On the same day on which the St. Ives motor life-boat was wrecked, the motor life-boat Princess Mary, at Padstow, Cornwall, was damaged on service. She is the heaviest lifeboat in the...

Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...

A sad accident involving the loss of five lives occurred on the evening of 1st May to a Coastguard boat belonging to Shingle Street. The boat earlier in the day had been to Aldeburgh, and when returning to Shingle Street capsized near the...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of June, 1957, the Mumbles honorary secretary tele- phoned that there was a sick man on the Helwick lightvessel. At 6.59 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched, with a doctor on...

The man who was lost was Benjamin Clark, the bowman and signalman.

He had served in the life-boat for 25 years, and his father and brother had each been coxswain. His widow has been pensioned by the Institution as if her...

RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.—The usual quietude of Runswick, a small fishing village to the north of Whitby, was considerably disturbed in the early hours of the 1st March by the s.s.

Ajuthia, of London, stranding on the rocks...

Ix 1933, when he had been the Insti- tution's consulting naval architect for twenty-nine years, Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A., published his Modern Motor Life-boats (Blackie, 7,9. 6d.). When he retired in 19-17, after...