LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.4 P.M.

on the 15th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small vessel was in distress five miles W.N.W. of Bar Buoy, and that the steamer Millais was standing by. This was confirmed by...

Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...

PAKEFIELD.—On the 18th January, at 11 A.M., when blowing very hard from S.S.W., the steamer Ludworth, bound from Hartlepool to London, was seen to exhibit signals of distress, and the No. 1 Lifeboat The Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was...

SUNDEELAND.—The schooner James, of Inverness, bound for Sunderland in ballast, while making for the port during a S.S.E.

wind at 9 P.M. on the 1st of March, stranded on the outer bar of the river Wear, and made signals for...

The Life-boat Rochdale, in answer to signals of distress shown from the schooner Hawk, of Chep- stow, was, with considerable difficulty and persistent efforts, launched to her assist- ance on the morning of Sunday, the 2nd Feb., and having...

On the evening of the 30th January the barque Toronto, of Glas- i gow, while on a voyage from Liverpool to | Ardrossan, was wrecked off the latter port | during a strong breeze at S.W. The Life- i boat Fair Maid of Perth was launched as j...

NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Robert and Susan Life-boat was launched on the 30th of June to the assistance of the coble Jane Isabella, which had gone to the fishing ground with four other boats and had been overtaken by a gale from the E...

During a moderate S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 3rd January, the steam- trawler Sea King, of Hull, was observed in the offing making signals for a pilot.

The sea was too rough for an ordinary shoreboat to put off,...