LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—Signal rockets having been fired by the Swin-Middle and Maplin Lightships on the 1st November, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 4 A.M., during a very strong N.B. wind and a rough sea. The Boat made her way across...

WHEN the Institution's President, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, returned from her visit to Malaya at the begin- ning of December 1952, the Institu- tion sent to her the following telegram, signed by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.,...

QUEEN'S AWAHD TO INDUSTRY 1967 19(9 19 1 1972 Decca was the first radar set aboard a lifeboat in this country.

That same Decca set is still serving on the same lifeboat; still guiding men through hard seas to safe...

Clovelly, Devon.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 1st of September, 1957, the coxswain reported that the yacht Eidolon, anchored in Clovelly Roads, was firing distress signals. He put out in his punt and was asked by the owner of the...

APRIL 1ST. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.

The motor-boat Pioneer left at 1.30 in the afternoon for Coquet Island to exchange lighthouse keepers. There was a dense fog. The Pioneer had not returned at five o’clock and was then two...

SHIPS IN COLLISION At 11.30 p.m. on 22nd October, 1965, the coastguard reported that two vessels had been in collision in fog between the Q.2 and the Bar Ship; one, the m.v.

Salaverry, a passenger ship, was badly holed. The...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.30 on the night of the 1st of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Seaflower, which had left Flotta for Houton with a crew of three was overdue, and at 9.45 the life-boat J.J.K.S.W....

DR. D. I. AITKEN, of Swanage, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum in recognition of the part he played when the Swanage life-boat landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut on ist December, 1966.

At...