LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 22d March the schooner Heinrkh Gerdes, of Rostock, on running for the harbour of Berwick, struck on the bar, and was driven ashore south of the entrance to the Tweed. It was blowing a heavy gale from east-north-east, and there was a...

Three Cresswell Launchers Their Ages Total 214 Years. - View image in PDF

E - U - R - O - P - E - S L - A - R - G - E - S - T The European Workboat Show has expanded rapidly and successfully with last year's visitors voting the show a huge success.

Well over 5000 trade visitors, from over 40...

For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of.the Committee of Management.

Torbay, Devon.—At about 10 P.M. on the 15th May, Miss Patience Trout, of Hallsands, saw, by telescope, signals of distress...

Timothy Appleyard (12), son of the Rev. E. Appleyard, vicar of Flamborough, who is chairman of the Flamborough branch, with a model of the Flamborough lifeboat Friendly Forester. It was built for Timothy by Mr. F. Mainprize, a local... - View image in PDF

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — 2 81 h August, 1939. A motor fishing boat had been reported ashore, and the lifeboat put out in a dense fog, but she was recalled as her help was not needed.—Rewards, £9 13s..

AUGUST 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

A British Wellington bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea, but an R.A.F. launch rescued her seven men from a rubber dinghy. - Rewards : Barmouth,...

[These extracts are from Dame Millicent Fawcett's book of reminiscences, " What I Remember," which were published (12*. 6d. net) last autumn. They are made by her kind permission, and that of her publishers, Messrs. T. Fisher...