LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Several aspects of the Chairman's address at the Annual General Meeting - reported elsewhere in this issue - are more closely linked than might appear at first sight.

The Chairman referred both to the ever-increasing...

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During a strong northerly gale, on the 18th January, three small open fishing- boats, belonging to Port Erin, put into Port St. Mary, and reported that two similar boats were attempting to follow.

Owing to the heavy sea and...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 6.15 in the evening, on the 8th of April, 1950, the Walton coastguard telephoned a message from the Felixstowe coast- guard, that a yacht near the Black Stakes, north-west of the Naze, seemed to be in...

Ox the llth of June Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., who, in the Birthday Honours List was made a Knight of the British Empire, presented to the life-boat station at Clacton-on-Sea, Ess'ex, the new life-boat which bears his name, and Lady Baring...

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1958, the St. Agnes coastguard informed the coxswain that a French fishing boat was anchored in the Cove with her engine broken down. A later message was passed...

TEIGNMOUTH.—On the 20th December the Life-boat China rescued the crew of a fishing boat, 3 in number, who had been overtaken by a high wind and sea, and were in danger of being wrecked on the bar off the port, on which a heavy sea was...

The schooner Lord Eeidnaven, of Banff, was "wrecked on the 1st November during a N.W. gale, and the Life-boat Bristol and Clifton promptly launched to her assistance, and rescued the crew of 3 persons..