LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch Rock lighthouse and Harrison Drive, and that three...

GILES' QUAY (DUNDALK), Co. LOUTH.

—At about 11 o'clock on the same morning (9th February), the brigantine Andover, of Dublin, which had lost her mainsail and had become unmanageable, stranded about one mile from...

At midnight on the llth February it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Egmont, of and for Cork from Cardiff with a cargo of coal, was riding with only one anchor close to " Holden's Bed." Her crew were said to...

ST. DAVID'S. —While a gale from W.S.W. was blowing and a very high sea was running, on the 24th March, signals were fired by the South Bishop Lighthouse. At 5 P.M. the Life-boat Gem was launched, made for St. David's Head, and found...

North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 10.10 on the morning of the 15th of February, 1951, several local fishing boats were seen in difficulties making for North Sun- derland harbour in a heavy swell and a light easterly...

Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.0 on the night of the 28th of December, 1951, the life-boat motor mechanic heard a vessel blowing V-signals on her siren, meaning "I require assistance", and five minutes later the Great Yarmouth coastguard...

Margate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the after- noon of the 20th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two local fishermen reported seeing an American Shooting Star trainer air- craft crash about three miles north- east of Margate pier. At...

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