LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 11TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An upturned boat had been reported, but was found to be a large log of timber. - Rewards, £7 5s.

Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...

Helicopter crash A MAYDAY distress call from the cockle boat Vallan reporting seeing a helicopter crash on Gat Sand, in the Wash, was intercepted by Yarmouth Coastguard at 1424 on Sunday June 26. A helicopter from RAF Coltishall just...

NEWS POINT FIRST AMONG EQUALS Those who find themselves explaining how the RNLI operates, how it is organised and how it is funded are very often asked, "What do other countries do? Is the RNLI unique?". The answer could have been...

J ULY 2 0 T H. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. A vessel had struck a mine in Belfast Lough, but her crew had got ashore in the ship’s boats. - Rewards, £4 10s..

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen.

THE new Porthdinllaen Motor Lifeboat was named on 12th August by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.

D.B.E., J.P., President of the South' Caernarvonshire Branch...

At 8 A.M. on the 26th February, a telephone message was received from the coastguard that one of H.M. Torpedo Destroyers was rapidly drifting towards the break- water, and that the crew of the Life- boat Friern Watch should be...