LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT 2.15 ih the morning of 27th January a message was received at the Penlee life-boat station from the coast- guard that a ship appeared to be on fire near Gear Rock in Mounts Bay.

Twenty minutes later the motor life- boat...

The Gorleston No. 1 Life-' boat Mark Lane was launched at 11.55 P.M. on the 28th October in response to signals of distress from the Corton Light-vessel. When proceeding to her, flares were seen on a drifter near the Sands, and the...

WORTHING.— On the 10th February, at about 5.50 P.M., the schooner Teresa,, of Weymoata, bound from Guernsey to London, with granite, was observed drivj ing on shore. A strong gale of wind from the S. was blowing and the sea was...

At } 10.15 P.M. on the 29th March a messenger reported that a vessel was j ashore on the North Cheek of Robin i Hood's Bay. The Life-boat Mary Ann LocJcwood was launched and proceeded to the stranded vessel, which...

At 9.40 P.M. on the 13th November a telephone message was received from the Coastguard that the s.s. Pitwines was aground, about three quarters of a mile W. of Bar Buoy. The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Harmar was launched and found the...

Cromer, and Sberingham, Norfolk.— On the morning of the 7th August, 1938, the motor vessel John M., of London, ran ashore off Beeston Hill between Cromer and Sheringham, while bound from Blyth to Teignmouthladen with coal and carrying a crew...

On the even- ing of the 15th December the steam trawler Thanet, of Hull, was seen to run aground on the Inner Binks sands.

She carried a crew of nine, and was returning home from the fishing grounds. The motor life-boat...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1952, the Gorles- ton coastguard telephoned that the steam drifter Fumerole, of Peterhead, which had been in tow of another drifter, had parted her tow...