LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Gorleston No. 1 Life-' boat Mark Lane was launched at 11.55 P.M. on the 28th October in response to signals of distress from the Corton Light-vessel. When proceeding to her, flares were seen on a drifter near the Sands, and the...

On the 14th September the strong W.S.W.

wind, which had been blowing at Brid- lington, increased towards sunset to a strong gale. At about 7.30 P.M. it was reported that some of the fishing cobles trawling in the vicinity...

At 9. A.M. on the 25th March during a strong W.

gale, with very heavy sea, a vessel was observed in difficulties about two miles from the middle Hasborough Sands, and soon after she was blown within half a mile of the sands...

Aith and Lerwick, Shetlands; and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.28 p.m. on Tuesday, i5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Lerwick life-boat station that a 46-foot motor fishing vessel bound for Lerwick from Kirkwall...

HAJBWIOH.—In answer to signals from the Cork light-vessel, the Sprmgwell Lifeboat put to sea at about 6.30 P.M., on the llth October, during a strong wind, thick weather and a high sea. She first proceeded to the Sunk light-vessel, and as...

The steamer Faedrelandet, of Bergen, bound from Bergen to Stockton-on- Tees with a cargo of iron ore, stranded in the early morning of the 10th January on the Goswick Sands. The Coastguard reported the casualty by telephone, and steps were...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.2 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Seniority, of London, that she had lost an anchor and was drifting towards...

Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...