LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Galway Bay - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a North Aran lighthouse- keeper informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two occupants had been sighted about one hundred and fifty yards off the island on which the lighthouse...

DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...

Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...

At about 8.50 A.M. on the 28th July, the Coast- guard reported that they had received a message from the Grunfleet Lighthouse stating that a ketch was high and dry on the Gunfleet Sands. As a strong S.W. breeze prevailed at the time with a...

A memorial to the crew of the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat who lost their lives on the night of 17th March, 1969, when their boat capsized in severe weather conditions, was unveiled in Osmondwall cemetery by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother...

On the 10th December, during a fresh gale from S.S.E.

and heavy cross-sea, the schooner Atlanta, of Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, after striking on the Barber Sands, on the Nor- folk coast, went ashore on Hasborough...

AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.

A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—At 5.45 A.M. on the 15th January a telephone message was received at Palling that a vessel was showing signals of distress two miles W.S.W. of the North Hasborough Light-vessel. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak...