LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...

BEMBRIDGE, I.W.—At about 7 P.M. on the 14th October the City of Worcester Life-boat put off to the assistance of the Norwegian brigantine Skjold, which had lost her masts and was drifting during a W. gale. A steam-tug had arrived at the...

At 10.40 P.M. of the 6th Jan., the Birmingham No. 2 Life- boat put off, in answer to signals of dis- tress from the s.s. Druid, of Sunderland, and conveyed ashore 5 of her crew who had been injured by the bursting of her boiler. One poor...

At about 5 A.M. on the 5th March signals of dis- tress were made by a vessel on the West Scar Bocks, about 400 yards from the shore. The Life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched and proceeded to her. She proved to be the steamer Clydesdale,...

Holyhead. Anglesey,—At 12.35 in the afternoon, on the 4th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that red rockets were being fired by a fishing vessel off Rhoscolyn. A light easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was...

On the 16th Novem- i ber, the brig Contest, of Guernsey, was I stranded during a gale of wind from the I East, on the Hook Sands. The Manley I Wood life-boat at Poole went out three | times and took off 46 men from the...

THE two new motor life-boats stationed at Cromer in 1934 and 1935 were named this year by the Right Hon.

Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.R, Secretary of State for Home Affairs.

The...

IND COOPE and the Co-op have run a joint promotion in Scotland to raise funds for three D class lifeboats for service on Scotland's coasts. The first of the three, to be stationed at Stranraer, was handed over last March in George Square...