LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PALLING and WINTESTOX, NOBFOLK.— At 9.25 A.M., on the 16th January, a telephone message was received at Pal- ling stating that a steamer was ashore on the Hasboro' Sands.

The No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was promptly...

PALLING.—Soon after midnight on the 28th May, while a strong N.N.E. wind was blowing and a heavy sea running,a vessel was reported to have stranded on the beach at Waxham, two and a half miles southward of the Falling Life-boat station. The...

At 8 A.M. on the 16th February the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Palling coastguard station.

The tide was then half flood, and there was a slight swell. A moderate...

PALLING. — While a whole gale was blowing from the E.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 5th January, intelligence was received that a vessel had gone ashore about a quarter of a mile from Hasborough, and that the services of the...

JANUARY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

The coastguard reported a steamer ashore half a mile N.E. of Palling, and at 10.10 A.M.

the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. A strong easterly wind was...

At 1.10 P.M. on the 6th May the Coastguard reported that four of the Palling fishing-boats, which had been overtaken by a strong S.E. breeze, rough sea and heavy surf, were running towards Cromer, and trying to find a safe landing-place, the...

HOLYHEAD.—A new life-boat has been placed at Holyhead by the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, in lieu of the old boat at that station, tow worn out. The new boat is 30 ft. long, and rows ten oars double banked.

The Lords...

About 1 A.M.

on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne. The crew consisted...