LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fraserburgb, Aberdeenshire. At 9.55 on the morning of the 30th of June, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed that an aircraft from the Royal Naval Air Station at Lossiemouth had crashed at the Rosehearty rocket...

The United States (State Service.

Established 1848).

Since the publication of our extensive note on this Service in the November issue of The Lifeboat we have received the Annual Report of the U.S....

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 23rd of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Rolling Wave was drifting in the fairway south of Southend pier. Later he reported that she had fouled the...

THOSE of our readers who have visited the watering-places and the Life-boat Stations of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION on the south and south-east coasts of England cannot but have noticed with interest the vast quantity of shingle which...

• The Sea, Thine Enemy by Captain Kenneth Langmaid, D.S.C., R.N. (Jarrolds, 355.) is in fact a comprehensive survey of coastal lights and life-boat service.

This is undoubtedly a book which may be read with profit and...

Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...

THURSDAY, 1st September, 1881.

Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

Boule me over! Treliske Cellar Supplies of Truro are staunch supporters of the lifeboat service. Five years ago the company's managing director, Bill Peaker, came up with the idea of playing the French game ofboule and organised the...