LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ORME'S HEAD.—On the 24th December, at about noon, the s.s. King Ja Ja, of Carnarvon, exhibited signals of distress in Llandudno Bay. The Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched, and on arriving at the vessel it was found that her...

AFTER HEART ATTACK Penlee, Cornwall. At 8 p.m. on I2th October, 1963, the port doctor told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from Niton radio station that the United States motor vessel American Merchant had a man on...

Staithes, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 6th May the local fishing cobles Star of Hope and Flora put to sea to haul crab and lobster pots.

Fog had been very dense for about sixteen hours, but had cleared. Some time...

The ! Life-boat William Hopkinson of Brig- ' house, from this station, during a heavy gale off shore, proceeded to the ketch Perseverance, of Sunderland, on the 28th September, in answer to signals of dis- tress displayed by...

Wells, Norfolk.—At 10.4 on the night of the 16th of July, 1949, the Wells coastguard reported that a flare had been seen three miles to the west-north- west, and at 10.30 the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched, with the second coxswain in...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 26th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the tanker Aureity of Lon- don had fallen down a ladder and might have broken some ribs...

AT 11.40 on the night of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life- boat station, Dr. S. Peace, was told by the Kirkwall coastguard that the trawler George Robb was ashore on the Stacks of...

At 10.14 a.m. on 10th November, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Nonsuch, a 65-ton replica of a 17th-century Hudson Bay Company trading vessel, with a crew of seven, was in difficulties in heavy seas south west...