LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Scarborough, and Filey, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 17th of January, 1949, the Scarborough coast- guard reported to the life-boat station that anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing coble Hilda which had left...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.43 on the morn- ing of the 16th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Aquila had gone ashore at West Ray Point. At 7.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea. There was a moderate sea, and a...

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At about midnight on 15-16th February the steam trawler Jeanne, of Ostend, struck the Keldar Steel, an outlying reef near Kettleness, while bound home, with a cargo of fish, from the fishing grounds.

She carried a crew of...

23rd February. A steamer had stranded at Hope Point, but refloated without help.—Rewards, £26 4s. Sd..

By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...

HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lan- caster, bound from Wicklow for Liver- pool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance...

ABOUT 9.45 on the morning of the 16th of April, 1960, a rubber and canvas collapsible canoe, which had left Burn- ham Overy Staiths for Blakeney, Nor- folk, capsized in the surf off Blakeney Point. There were two men on board, who were...