LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.41 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the yacht Paulina needed help five miles south of Portland Bill.

The life-boat Lloyd's, on...

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 23rd October, 1961, Anglesey radio station informed the honorary secretary that the cargo on board the motor vessel Eemshorn of Delfzijl had shifted and that the vessel was listing...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 10.34 in the morning of the 7th of April, 1949, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing boat was ashore on the west side of Pladda Island, and at 10.47 the life-boat City of Glasgow was launched. A...

Margate, Kent. At 10.15 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received from the Tongue lightvessel that a yacht was in difficulties one mile east of the lightvessel...

PORT ISAAC, CORNWALL.—On the 26th March, at about 1 P.M., the schooner British Queen, of Wexford, bound from that port to Porthcawl in ballast, was observed to be in distress. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.W., and there was...

PENZANCE.—On the 10th March while a whole gale was blowing from the E.

with snow and a heavy ground sea, the schooner Joseph Nicholson, of Newcastle, bound from Carnarvon for Norway with slate, dragged her anchors while...

WEXFORD.—The fishing-yawl Liberator, of Wexford, grounded on the N.E. side of the Dogger'Bank, while returning to port from the fishing grounds in a strong N.W. gale and a rough sea on the 5th January. The Life-boat Andrew Pickard...

MARCH 13TH - 14TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 7.20 P . M . the Blyth coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Brian, of Sunderland, which had just left port, laden with coal, had driven ashore to the west of the West Pier. A...