LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Magnus Work - former Kirkwall lifeboat station Honorary Secretary.

At 6.45 A.M. on the 23rd February last, during a moderate S.W. wind, a vessel was observed ashore on the Goodwin Sands, and signal-guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel. The Bradford Lifeboat at once went out in tow of the harbour...

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PETERHEAD.—On the morning of the 9th January, a mounted messenger gave information at the Life-boat Station that a vessel was ashore on Scotstown Head, about five or six miles N. of Peterhead.

The Life-boat temporarily...

LIZARD.—The schooner Gipsy Queen, of Padstow, bound from London for Liverpool, with cement, struck on Mynheer Rocks during a moderate gale from the N.E. on the evening of the 13th March, and showed signals of distress. The Lifeboat Edmund...

CATAMARAN DISMASTED Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 11.53 a.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the coastguard reported that a catamaran with a crew of two had been dismasted half a mile off Winthorpe and was drifting northward.

At 12.15 p.m....

OCTOBER 2 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Shortly before noon the sea became heavy, with an easterly wind blowing.

A number of fishing boats were making for harbour and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon...

LYDD, KENT.—The David Hulett Lifeboat was launched at 9 P.M. on the 3rd November, signals of distress having been shown by the barquentine Scotia, of Ayr, bound from Aruba for London, withphosphate rock, which had stranded off No. 1 Battery,...