LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At half past ten on the morning of the llth of February, 1950, the coastguard tele- phoned that a coble and a motor boat with a lighter laden with coal in tow, were in difficulties off the Tyne Harbour entrance....

The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 6.10 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was burn- ing green flares two miles west-north- west of Lizard Head. The coastguard signalled the ship by morse, and in reply she asked...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 8.5 in the morning of the 29th of September, 1951, Valentia Radio reported that a man was adrift in a ship's boat off the Bull Rock Lighthouse, and the life- boat A.E.D. was launched at 8.20. A south-easterly gale...

Stromness, Orkney.—At about 12.30 P.M. on the 2nd November, 1938, the Kirkwall coastguard reported that the Danish schooner Nordstjernen, of Marstal, was dismasted and drifting helplessly, ten miles north of Noup Head, Westray, and about...

Barmouth, Merionethshire.—On the morning of the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off the Dysinni River. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Jones-Gibb was launched at...

The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 5.30 A.M. on the 14th February,- 1939, the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore on the end of Spurn Point. The coxswain immediately went to the beach, where he saw the steam trawler Hausa, of...

Selsey, Sussex.—On the evening of the 22nd April, 1939, the yacht Brionie ran aground two miles W.S.W.

of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...

Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...