LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Droughty Ferry, Angus.—Shortly before 9 A.M. on the 19th December, 1938, information was received from the pilot cutter and the coastguard that a vessel was in distress a quarter of a mile E.N.E. of the Abertay...

SWANSEA.—The Wolverkampton Lifeboat was launched at 9.35 P.M. on the 26th January to the assistance of two steamers, the Coniston Fell, of Liverpool, and the Ribble, of Whitehaven, which had been in collision about half a mile N.E. of...

AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a small boat was trapped under the north pier and that cries for help had been heard by the...

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Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.5 in the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1948, the coastguard reported that a small steamer in New Harbour had signalled on her whistle for help. The motor life-boat A.E.D. left her moorings at 1.20 in a southerly...

IN the course of two months the Institution has received cheques for £500 from the colonel at Calais commanding J12 Transit Camp of the British Forces in France. They come with the message: " On behalf of all troops who have passed...

Margate, Kent. At 2.48 early on the morning of the 27th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on the Kentish Knock sands about eighteen miles north-east of Margate. A south- south-easterly...