LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the entrance to Strangford Lough. A strong westerly breeze was...

Walmer, Kent.—At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 1st of September, 1955, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the East Goodwin lightvessel that a yacht needed help about two miles west-by- south of the...

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 10.15 on the night of the 9th of August, 1959, the owner of the yacht Avis told the honorary secretary that the yacht, which had two men on board, was over- due on passage from Beaumaris to Knott End,...

By the REV. THOMAS GUTHRIE, D.D.

THE gale of the 3rd of December last was a destructive hurricane. It would appear, from observations made at Liverpool, that its utmost severity fell on that town and its neighbourhood ;...

Tyne rescues crews of two yachts in galeThe Director of the RNLI has written to thank the crew of the Ramsgate lifeboatfor a service 'carried out very professionally' after the station's Tyne had rescued the crews of two yachts...

ANCHOR TROUBLE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 12.50 p.m.

on 3rd May, 1964, the yacht Quinquereme, which had a crew of four, ran aground on the Layan sands. She refloated on the rising tide, but appeared to be in need of help, so...

On the afternoon of the 25th October the coastguard at Cliff End telephoned that a vessel was burning flares at the mouth of Keyhaven river. A fresh S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was squally. The motor life- boat...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 in the evening, on the 4th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a motor cruiser apparently aground near Goodwin Knoll buoy. At 6.55 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...