LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Yealm River and Plymouth, South j Devon.—The s.s. Veghtstroom, of Amster- dam, whilst bound from Fowey to Amsterdam with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Mewstone at theentrance to Plymouth Harbour on the 21st November. Information of...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 24th of De- cember, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Virginia, of Panama, had run ashore one mile west of Atherfield but had not made any distress signals....

MR. DAVID EVANS, who is second mate of the tanker Pass of Balmaha, has been presented with a gold watch and scroll by the Bulk Oil Steamship Co. Ltd., in recognition of his gallantry in diving overboard while the ship was in the Firth of...

AN anonymous gift of ten shillings has been received with the message : " A jubilee gift from an old-age pensioner of West Hampstead." Another anonymous gift, of half a crown, has come from another old-age pensioner, who wrote...

.— On the 20th September information was received j here, that the smack Jane, of Carnarvon,! was riding outside the Orme's Head dis- j masted, and with signals of distress flying.

The wind was blowing strong from ...

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Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.50 P.M. on the 21st May a local boatman reported a small motor yacht in difficulties. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The yacht was the Hyperion, of Harwich. She had been taken in tow by a Dutch...

IN order to be ready for any emergency on the coast the Institution keeps at its Storeyard at Poplar, on the Thames, a Eeserve Fleet of Life-boats. One of these Boats can be sent at a moment's notice to any place on the coast where the...